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Re:The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of exist... by machomaster on Monday December 01, 2025 @08:02PM (#46115946)
> The quality of health care in the US is significantly higher than anywhere else in the world.

Simply not true.

Infant mortality and under-five mortality rate (U5MR) are one of best simple indicators of the quality of healthcare. USA's mortality is x3 (!!!) of the countries on top. This puts USA around place 50 in the world, worse than Russia...

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Re:The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of exist... by eudamoniac on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @08:33PM (#46129232)
It's obesity, mostly
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Re:The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of exist... by machomaster on Thursday December 04, 2025 @07:02AM (#46146672)
We are not talking about the BMI or life expectancy. I talked about the infant mortality.
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