CDC data shows rate rose 3% last year but experts say they are not sure why statistic that has been falling should have risen sharply
Maternity wards are closing left and right thanks to the regressive Supreme Court. I bet that’s at least a part of it
That and the way that funding for rural hospitals has been declining for decades and more and more rural hospitals are closing. This could be avoided by a bipartisan bill to change the way in which medicaid/medicare payment rates are determined. However, insurance companies, and the far right, are, of course, working against this.
Next, organize the data by zip code and overlay it on a political heat map of the United States. I have a theory…
Infant mortality tends to rise when abortion is restricted
According to Republicans this is a feature…
Considering the US already has some of the highest infant mortality in the developed world, this is not good.
…b-b-but you’ve got the best healthcare system in the world - it’s why you pay so much. It’s certainly not delivering comparable outcomes to Qatar and Lebanon for 3x and 8x the cost respectively, or 50% more than the next most expensive country.
I mean, thankfully I live in the UK, so we still have the NHS (for now). I do feel extremely sorry for our American cousins, though. Their healthcare (insurance) system is fucked.
Unsurprising. After dropping already insufficient COVID protections after two years of killing the most vulnerable adults, makes sense that morality is up for babies where new vulnerable hosts continue to be produced.
Also:
- allowing multiple infections of an immune-suppressing virus,
- while placing continuing high-load accute and increasing-load chronic health conditions on a health care system while
- having healthcare staff decrease due to burnout and post-covid conditions
- and having poorer folks with less access to the best protections (work from home, homeschool/daycare, quality mask, quality education on how to stay safe from COVID)
All seems to track.
