In my last post, I supported the fact that two of our closest allies that are also major countries, the UK and Germany, spend more in combined
local, state and federal outlays, even without supersized military spending, than is spent in the U.S.. They do not engage in the subterfuge of a hidden tax paid to for profit
health insurers who take a 20 percent cut of those payments and represent that they are paying a portion of the health care costs of some of the
population.
Instead, a portion of total taxation is devoted to public payment of the costs of healthcare of their entire populations and is reflected in the total
of public expenditure. There is no compartmentalization and the associated bookkeeping of shoe horning healthcare expense to veterans, medicaid recipients,
medicare recipients, the uninsured, the privately insured, the car accident injured, those injured or made ill on the job, etc., etc. Litigation and administrative
costs in the U.S. associated with all of that, "who is the responsible party for this healthcare cost," shoe horning does not exist in other ODCs!
US military and intelligence gathering and analysis expenditures over and above the percentage of gdp of those expenditures, compared to the outlays for
similar expenditures by the UK or Germany are a diminishment of the quality of life of Americans, compared to the residents of all other ODCs.
Germany:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gm.html
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Mother's mean age at first birth:
29.4 years (2015 est.)
Maternal mortality ratio:
6 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.)
country comparison to the world: 168
Infant mortality rate:
total: 3.4 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 3.7 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 3.1 deaths/1,000 live births (2017 est.)
country comparison to the world: 205
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 80.8 years
United States:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html
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Mother's mean age at first birth:
26.4 years (2015 est.)
Maternal mortality ratio:
14 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.)
country comparison to the world: 138
Infant mortality rate:
total: 5.8 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 6.3 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 5.3 deaths/1,000 live births (2017 est.)
country comparison to the world: 170
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 80 years....
All other factors being equal, German mothers would be expected to have a poorer average outcome than American mothers.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_maternal_age
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Advanced maternal age is associated with adverse reproductive effects such as increased risk of infertility,[4] and that the children have chromosomal abnormalities.[5] The corresponding paternal age effect is less pronounced.[6][7]
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Examples
In the USA, the average age at which women bore their first child advanced from 21.4 years old in 1970, to 25 years old in 2006.[9]
The German Federal Institute for Population Research claimed in 2015 the percentage for women with an age of at least 35 giving birth to a child was 25,9%. This figure rose from 7,6% in 1981.[10]
