{"id":185237,"date":"2011-08-30T20:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/08\/30\/best-healthcare-system-in-the-world-my-ass\/"},"modified":"2011-08-30T20:29:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T01:29:00","slug":"best-healthcare-system-in-the-world-my-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/08\/30\/best-healthcare-system-in-the-world-my-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Healthcare System in the World, My Ass!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The USA is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/44333054\/ns\/health-childrens_health\/\">40<sup>th<\/sup> in the world in infant mortality<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Babies in the United States have a higher risk of dying during their first month of life than do babies born in 40 other countries, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the countries that outrank the United States in terms of newborn death risk are South Korea, Cuba, Malaysia, Lithuania, Poland and Israel, according to the study.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the World Health Organization estimated the number of newborn deaths and newborn mortality rates of more than 200 countries over the last 20 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Malaysia????<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia has a better infant mortality record?<\/p>\n<p>Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.<\/p>\n<p>FWIW, this problem is largely driven by preterm births, which are in tern driven by lack of access to adequate prenatal care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USA is now 40th in the world in infant mortality: Babies in the United States have a higher risk of dying during their first month of life than do babies born in 40 other countries, according to a new report. Some of the countries that outrank the United States in terms of newborn death &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}