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Originally Posted by Gordon Bombay
Canada and the US basically have the same infant mortality rates from the 2 sites I checked. US having one more death per one thousand births.
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No, one death per thousand isn't 'basically the same', Canada is poor for a developed country, we have been slipping some, mostly due to the difficulty of providing healthcare to rural first nations community's but the US's 5.5 is getting into poor for a developing nation edging into average for the 3rd world
Good is 1.5, decent (most of Europe) is 3, were 4.5 and the US is teetering on the edge of the abyss that is places like Argentina Peru and Brazil
This for the richest country in the world who population on paper earns much more than we do, money should buy health but Canadians live 3 years longer than Americans on average, 3 years is a massive difference, we would normally need a biblical plague to drop us down into what is an average year for the US