Interesting Healthcare Statistics

I still think the life expectancy–and to some extent, infant mortality rates also–are worse than the above compared countries largely because of what we eat. Perhaps, if more government funding is going toward health care, we should attempt to minimize the number of people who need health care by means of subsidizing healthier foods (such as produce) and/or taxing what causes major health concerns.

Infant mortality is calculated differently in the USA, counting many many more babies as having a chance.—Low birth weight infants are not counted against the “live birth” statistics for many countries reporting low infant mortality rates.
According to the way statistics are calculated in Canada, Germany, and Austria, a premature baby weighing <500g is not considered a living child.
But in the U.S., such very low birth weight babies are considered live births. The mortality rate of such babies — considered “unsalvageable” outside of the U.S. and therefore never alive — is extraordinarily high; up to 869 per 1,000 in the first month of life alone. This skews U.S. infant mortality statistics.
If a child in Hong Kong or Japan is born alive but dies within the first 24 hours of birth, he or she is reported as a “miscarriage” and does not affect the country’s reported infant mortality rates….

the problem is the medication companies and insurence. They are shameless pirates who squeeze a buck at the expense of people dying unless they do. It is shameless and if the president wants to overhaul this thing, he needs to clip their wings and attack the problem. everyone in a free country should have access to healthcare it is stupid to think otherwise. Is it really good enough that fellow Americans die because the system has failed them?