For developed nations our infant mortality is horrible. It's an easy thing to fix too. Just have better birth control and prenatal care.
List of countries by infant mortality rate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Low birth weights are what attribute mainly to higher infant mortality rates in America. That has nothing to do with a health care system, and everything to do with personal lifestyle choices in America. Alcohold consumption and smoking during pregnancy are the primary contributors to low infant birth weights, which is the primary cause of infant mortality.
When comparing apples to apples, healthy babies to healthy babies, the infant mortality rate is lower in America than it is in Canada.
Infant mortality rates have little to do with a healthcare system. The primary reasons for infant mortality rates in America are due to personal lifestyle choices, outside the control of any healthcare system.
So once again, you are twisting and misrepresenting the actual facts.
Transition over to availability of MRIs, CT scans, and preventative screening. America has twice as many MRIs per capita than Canada. And 86% of women in America have had regular mammograms and papsmears, whereas only 73% of Canadians.
You cant twist these numbers. The only thing they have we dont have is more "availability". But because the healthcare is available to everyone in Canada, they must implement cost saving measures. THAT MEANS RATIONING.
Also, America figures in pre-mature births into our overall mortality rates, whereas most other countries do not. In addition, because of high rates of homicide and car wrecks, our mortality rates increase because of that as well. Take out those two factors, and America's mortality rate is better than most of the world's.
Now, are you going to say that homicide and car wrecks have anything whatsoever to do with any kind of "healthcare system"?????? Because they dont. Not a single thing.
Once again, you are twisting statistics severely.