It also has the must expensive healthcare system in human history.

Ordinary people are getting scammed.

Black women especially. Up until recently it was actually taught in nursing and medical education that black people feel less pain for the same amount of emotion expressed (aka they’re exaggerating). It turns out when you assume a woman is exagerrating postpartum abdominal pain, that’s how she dies of a hemorrhage.

You all may also be interested to know that the “traditional” lithotomy position (laying back w legs up in the stirrups) is actually one of if not the worst position to give birth in. I put it in quotes because it’s not even actually traditional. As a preferred birthing position it only dates back to the 17th century (before that it was used for kidney stone removal, where the name lithotomy comes from). Before that women typically squatted, kneeled, or were on all fours. Lithotomy became popular because it was more accessible to the male physician, and because the French king at the time wanted to watch his wife give birth, and that was the position in which he could best watch. So… do with that information what you will.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Unlike Norway and some other peer nations, “the US has a maternal care workforce shortage problem, which is only supposed to get worse,” said Munira Gunja, lead author of the report and senior researcher at the International Program in Health Policy and Practice Innovations at the Commonwealth Fund.

Researchers at the Commonwealth Fund analyzed maternal mortality data from 14 high-income countries: Australia, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the US.

The data, which came from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, showed that the top three nations with the highest maternal death rate were the United States, Chile and New Zealand.

“It is encouraging to see fewer maternal deaths in the U.S. in 2022, however the U.S. is still such an outlier, and the racial disparities are profoundly disturbing,” Dr. Laurie Zephyrin, senior vice president for advancing health equity at the Commonwealth Fund, said in a news release.

Adding more birth workers to the maternal health care workforce remains an important component and major need, said Dr. Michelle Owens, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Jackson, Mississippi, who was not involved in the new report.

The report joins several other studies that have highlighted the United States’ high maternal mortality rate, said Dr. Christopher Zahn, interim CEO and chief of clinical practice and health equity and quality for ACOG.

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