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You're repeating the first subheading, but that subheading is setup partly as a strawman in the article. Read further.
by phyzome 9y ago
You're repeating the first subheading, but that subheading is setup partly as a strawman in the article. Read further.
- Consultant32452 9y agoI read it. They never denied that the root causes of the problems were obesity, age, etc. All they did was blame the state for not paying to mitigate it and call American doctors sexist.
- joe_the_user 9y agoThey gave a fairly plausible argument that other nations had dealt with obesity effectively and thus that America's failure was a failure rather than just tough luck.
- Consultant32452 9y agoYes, that's precisely what I said. The state didn't mitigate the results of their bad health decisions. Are we having a discussion about why maternal mortality has risen, or are we having a discussions about whether or not it's the state's responsibility to mitigate the poor health decisions of the individual? I assumed we were having the former.
- revelation 9y agoWell, it is and it isn't. It is hard to take an article entirely serious when in passing it makes crass statements like It’s certainly representative of a bigger problem, that women in the US are not getting the medical attention they need.
- SolaceQuantum 9y agoIs that untrue when the mortality rate for birth is so high?
- jquery 9y agoIt could be. You have to think critically about hard problems. Solving them isn't easier with wishy-washy thinking.