Re: Health insurance.
It depends on what child birth mortality rate you are looking at. The mortality rate is high for hospital births; home births in the US have an almost zero mortality rate. For the hospital births, you can split the low income sector from middle class and see that prenatal care (or lack there of) by low income people is responsible for the skewed statistics. In the US the fed govt will fund 100% of prenatal care for anyone but a certain segment of the population, those that would benefit the most from it, chooses not to participate in the program(s), and a high birth mortality rate is the result. Its not the medical care, its the moms that are the cause of this statistic.