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Well, the united kingdom has a much more elaborate and complete "social safety net" and yet their maternal mortality report has similar conclusions to ours. The

Well, the united kingdom has a much more elaborate and complete "social safety net" and yet their maternal mortality report has similar conclusions to ours. The question is always what else are we willing to give up in order to pay for that? Would you be willing to have a 10% lower effective income to save a million lives every year in the US? What about to save just 1 life? Or what if you had to have a 50% lower income in order to save that 1 life? Is it still worth it? Everything is much easier if we are just relying on the mythical "other people" to pay for these things regardless of cost.

maerF0x0 4y ago
> What about to save just 1 life? I actually think this ought to be a root standard that the government sets. Then every industry will have a baseline by which they are strictly required to care (and at risk monetarily if they're negligent) . eg: $1M per life expectancy year remaining.
- itishappy 4y ago
  Not quite what you're looking for, but quite relevant: https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/actuarial-tables https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/actuarial-tables