The Center for Disease Control should be a place for dispassionate data, free of bias. I hope we can all agree on that. So here's some data from that agency:
The lifetime risk of maternal deaths is greater in the U.S. than in 40 other nations, including most of the industrialized world. Overall, 13.3 per 100,000 mothers die in childbirth, and that's twice as many as 20 years ago. Assuming our health care is the best in the world, I will have to conclude that not enough expectant moms have access to this world class treatment.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, the state's largest insurer and considered a non-profit, earned $186 million in 2008 while raising premiums on customers as the economy slid into recession.
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