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Undertoad · 03-31-2012, 10:18 AM

And infant mortality rates are measured by percentage of live births, not percentage of people:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...mortality_rate

And the question typically posed isn't "Why is the US worst?" it's "Why is the US 48th and apparently all other first-world countries better?"

Infant mortality as a benchmark of quality of health care for a nation made sense in the 1950s, before fertility treatment.

Today the benchmark is only used to bash the US system.

03-31-2012, 10:18 AM	#7
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	And infant mortality rates are measured by percentage of live births, not percentage of people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...mortality_rate And the question typically posed isn't "Why is the US worst?" it's "Why is the US 48th and apparently all other first-world countries better?" Infant mortality as a benchmark of quality of health care for a nation made sense in the 1950s, before fertility treatment. Today the benchmark is only used to bash the US system.