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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: (tranlation) Apartment Women by Gu Byeong-Mo
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:59:20 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <vrjqvb$mta$1@panix2.panix.com>,
Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:
>In article <vril6j$i5kg$2@dont-email.me>, Titus G  <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>SNIP
>>
>>>>>> On 3/19/2025 1:17 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> <snippo -- more kids needed!>
>>>>>
>>
>>Today I read that "The US has the highest maternal mortality rate in the
>>developed world. Shockingly, it's on the rise." I have not checked this.
>>P 239. Careless People. Sarah Wynn Williams. 2025.
>
>This is sadly true, and it's more than doubled in the past twenty years.
>My friend who is a doula says that some of this is because Americans are
>choosing to have babies much later in life now, but most of it is due to
>the lack of available medical care and Americans' reluctance to use what
>care is available.

I think the solution here is to increase the cost of medical care to
Americans by a couple of orders of magnitude. That way it would be a
treasured luxury, like eggs, and people would compete to acquire it. 
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