Re:Health care is turning into a consumer product
by onlyrealcuzzo on Monday January 10, 2022 @11:38AM
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> US is also a super bad infant mortality rate compared to other countries:
Access to healthcare is quite low in the US compared to most of the 50 countries ahead of us. We also have higher levels of poverty, ESPECIALLY for a lot of parents/children.
GDP is irrelevant. The paper says:
> In 2013, the US infant mortality rate (IMR) ranked 51st internationally, comparable to Croatia, despite an almost three-fold di erence in GDP per capita
If you have high GDP per capita, and more poor people per capita, and health care is not free - you're going to have more people not accessing health care and suffering the consequences.
In this world - I would expect infant mortality to be much higher even when the healthcare systems are equal.
Access to healthcare is quite low in the US compared to most of the 50 countries ahead of us. We also have higher levels of poverty, ESPECIALLY for a lot of parents/children.
GDP is irrelevant. The paper says:
> In 2013, the US infant mortality rate (IMR) ranked 51st internationally, comparable to Croatia, despite an almost three-fold di erence in GDP per capita
If you have high GDP per capita, and more poor people per capita, and health care is not free - you're going to have more people not accessing health care and suffering the consequences.
In this world - I would expect infant mortality to be much higher even when the healthcare systems are equal.