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No, this is not accurate at all.  These may affect the numbers a little but you're missing the big picture.  Do you see the economy?  Do you realize that many of us on DCUM live in a complete bubble?  There are significant numbers of women who get NO prenatal care in the US.  Look at the numbers of uninsured people.  There are programs to help but so many people fall through the cracks.  Our system is all or nothing. [b] If you have good insurance and you are a savvy consumer, you'll get the best of care.  Otherwise, not so much.[/b][/quote]

I don't really think that's the truth.  Those of us with decent insurance might like to think so, but there is so much out of our control.

[b]Having good insurance doesn't guarantee lack of medical errors[/b], or too many interventions.[/quote]

No, but if we're discussing worldwide healthcare ratings and you bring up medical errors, you've got to make a case that there are more medical errors in the US than abroad.  Medical errors are everywhere, human nature.  Of course they can be incentivized in the wrong kind of system.  I'm not sure we have a worse problem here than abroad, though.[/quote]

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