Re:The US is the most expensive nation in which to have a baby
by HelloMcFly on Saturday January 20, 2018 @10:54AM
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And higher rates of teenage pregnancy, pregnancies by obese persons. Using the infant mortality rate as a proxy for US healthcare quality isn't reasonable, as you say.
Re:The US is the most expensive nation in which to have a baby
by moorhosj on Saturday January 20, 2018 @11:54AM
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On the flip side, one could argue that teen contraception and nutrition education are important parts of a properly functioning health system. To put it another way, who is to say high rates of teen and obese pregnancies are not caused, in part, by our health system?
Re:The US is the most expensive nation in which to have a baby
by HelloMcFly on Sunday January 21, 2018 @07:56AM
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> who is to say high rates of teen and obese pregnancies are not caused, in part, by our health system?
Sure, perhaps in part, just as any occurrence in other countries with any recordable teen or obese pregnancies. However, it would be inappropriately reductive to say the health system is the cause of these, and I'd argue it would be incorrect to say the health system is the primary cause. To do so would be to ignore the entrenched historical and cultural influences on the present state.
That's largely a product of people trying a lot harder to with much earlier premature births than other countries, not a fault in care provided.
There's a lot of ways to frame how the US healthcare system fails people, this one's a canard.