{"id":4960,"date":"2012-06-28T23:11:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T05:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=4960"},"modified":"2012-06-28T23:11:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T05:11:21","slug":"us-health-care-ranks-37th-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/us-health-care-ranks-37th-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"US health care ranks 37th in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Makes you proud, don\u2019t it. <em style=\"color: red\"><sub>mjh<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/eugene-robinson-the-supreme-court-helping-to-heal-the-nation\/2012\/06\/28\/gJQAEgJf9V_story.html?wprss=rss_eugene-robinson\">Eugene Robinson: The Supreme Court, helping to heal the nation &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The World Health Organization gives the U.S. health system an overall ranking of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/whr\/2000\/media_centre\/press_release\/en\/index.html\">37th in the world<\/a>, far below other Western democracies. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/publications\/the-world-factbook\/rankorder\/2102rank.html\">CIA World Factbook<\/a> \u2014 hardly the work of a bunch of left-leaning one-worlders \u2014 reports that life expectancy in the United States is not just lower than in other industrialized countries but also lower than in Jordan and Bosnia.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/publications\/the-world-factbook\/rankorder\/2091rank.html\">Infant mortality<\/a> in this country, according to the CIA, exceeds that of Slovenia and Cuba. It is possible to quibble with these figures but not to ignore them. We should be ashamed of ourselves.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/eugene-robinson-the-supreme-court-helping-to-heal-the-nation\/2012\/06\/28\/gJQAEgJf9V_story.html?wprss=rss_eugene-robinson\">Eugene Robinson: The Supreme Court, helping to heal the nation &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Makes you proud, don\u2019t it. mjh Eugene Robinson: The Supreme Court, helping to heal the nation &#8211; The Washington Post The World Health Organization gives the U.S. health system an overall ranking of 37th in the world, far below other Western democracies. The CIA World Factbook \u2014 hardly the work of a bunch of left-leaning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/us-health-care-ranks-37th-in-the-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US health care ranks 37th in the world<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4961,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions\/4961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}