The United States is the only advanced economy in the world with a rising maternal mortality rate. Deaths related to childbirth in the United States are nearing the highest rate in a quarter-century. An estimated 18.5 mothers died for every 100,000 births in 2013, compared with 7.2 per 100,000 in 1987. This means a woman giving birth here is twice as likely to die than in Saudi Arabia and three times as likely than in the United Kingdom.

Mississippi, for example, did not expand Medicaid, leaving 107,000 people - nearly half of whom are women - with no insurance options at all, according to the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...ississippi-keep-dying/

Meanwhile, in Tallahassee, republicans in the house propose to take 200 million from schools to continue their fight to refuse federal funds to expand Medicaid
http://www.tampabay.com/news/p...k-off-medicaid/2226970

what are the reasons for the high mortality?  doctors from the 3rd world with bogus certs working in Mississippi  ?   drug related ?   no insurance with births at home ?    something doesnt seem right with the stats there... 

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it's never too late to have a happy childhood...

It's not just Mississippi, although Mississippi's the worst.  Washington Post Wonkblog

"The United States is the only advanced economy in the world with a rising maternal mortality rate. Deaths related to childbirth in the United States are nearing the highest rate in a quarter-century. An estimated 18.5 mothers died for every 100,000 births in 2013, compared with 7.2 per 100,000 in 1987. This means a woman giving birth here is twice as likely to die than in Saudi Arabia and three times as likely than in the United Kingdom."

Mississippi has a low physician-to-resident ratio.   

I take it that prior to Clown Care women were dying in droves in the states that did expand Medicaid?

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Access to healthcare might be a step in the right direction, but there are many factors in play. Poor diet, obesity, and ignorance are major health hazards that contribute to this.

Maybe those poor republicans down in Mississippi can get some help from the liberals of California or New York. It shouldn't surprise anyone that the conservative south has third world healthcare and infrastructure. I guess they always have Jesus and the healing power of prayer.



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“It is the heart of US policy to use fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism “ - Michael Parenti

new slogan on their license plate says - "Miss. - a 3rdWorld state, where healthcare goes to die."

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There is water at the bottom of the ocean

"We are dying for a continued Free Market!!!"

Lets be clear though, to the rich GOP that trickle on the poorest, they have the freedom to choose their own doctors and hospitals and the comfort that their wealth will get them the best their state has to offer. It does not concern these wealth creators whether the poor are suffering with obesity, no health care paper mill smog, smoking rates and minimum wage jobs. These people deserve their reduced status because they have not pursued the American dream, pulled themselves up by their boot straps and created their own wealth in the land of opportunity. The GOP knows that these people deserve their place and any efforts to improve their healthcare or wages robs them of the opportunity to do it for themselves. Their poverty and their future wealth is all in their own hands. In order to maintain this philosophy, you have to play three monkeys with the facts all day everyday, but the GOP is not shrinking from that challenge.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

sounds like time to loot and pillage........umm, I mean protest.

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"Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each" - Henry David Thoreau

estimated 18.5 mothers died for every 100,000 births in 2013, compared with 7.2 per 100,000 in 1987.>>

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What is the difference between 1987 and 2013???>>

When Reagan was President 7.2 mothers died per 100,000>>

When Obama is President 18.5 die per 100,000.>>

It's the Economy Stupid???>>

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Labor Market Performance in 1987 was the best in several years as the economic expansion reacged the 5 year mark. Job Growth was stronger that it had been since 1984.>>

All three major racial and ethnic groups contributed to the job growth in 1987. The rate of employment growth among Black and Hispanioc workers was roughly twice that for white workers.>>

The rate for adult women declined by 0.8 percentage points to 5.2 percent at years end- its lowest level since the first half of 1974>>

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This just deserved a repost. Conservatics just think that "freedom" and good healthcare only should be provided to to those THEY believe should have it. Don't care about sh!t....so long as "I got mine!"


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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness -
John Kenneth Galbraith

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith"

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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness -
John Kenneth Galbraith

So spot on it deserves a hat trick 3rd posting!!


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"Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do." - Bertrand Russell


"Morality is doing what is right, regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right.


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