Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013
Stephan: Here is the latest on the very profitable but largely dysfunctional illness profit system that passes for healthcare in the U.S. What this story doesn't tell you, but should, is that not only is giving birth in the U.S. more expensive than anywhere else in the world, it is also dangerous. A young mother would do better to have her delivery in Bulgaria than America. Our maternal mortality rates are a disgrace.
Giving birth in the United States is far more expensive than in other countries, and the additional cost does not appear to come with additional benefits - Americans do not have more access to care or better access to care than citizens in other developed nations, according to an analysis [3] from the New York Times.
‘It’s not primarily that we get a different bundle of services when we have a baby,
