Check out where women are least likely to survive in "the greatest nation in the world." Sparsely populated rural conservative voters now control our government by virtual of their district size, and it's there we're seeing women's mortality rates plummeting:
WonkBlog: There is a frightening graph in a recent article in Health Affairs by David Kindig and Erika Cheng. Kindig and Cheng looked at trends in male and female mortality rates from 1992–96 to 2002–06 in 3,140 US counties. What they found was that female mortality rates increased in 42.8% of counties (male mortality rates increased in only 3.4%). The counties are mapped below: red means that female mortality worsened.
Psst... if mortality rates INCREASE (which what the red means), then things are getting worse and people are dying sooner.
ReplyDeleteIf mortality rates PLUMMET (which is what the blue means), then things are getting better and people are living longer.
I think your post title does not mean what you think it means.
Oops, great point. Much appreciated.
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