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🗓️ 20 August 2019
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0:00.0 | American exceptionalism, the belief that the U.S. stands unique among all the world's nations, |
0:06.5 | a shining city on the hill, as Ronald Reagan put it, and while someone the left might be tempted to |
0:17.0 | poo-poo that notion, in some ways it is indisputably true. Take maternal mortality, for instance. |
0:20.0 | Between 1991 and 2014, bucking just about every international trend, |
0:26.0 | the maternal mortality rate in the United States more than doubled. |
0:31.0 | The US has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world. |
0:35.0 | In fact, we rank lower than countries like Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, and Saudi Arabia. |
0:41.0 | And if we break that down by ethnicity, |
0:44.4 | the numbers are even starker. |
0:47.7 | According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control |
0:50.6 | and Prevention, African American, Native American, and Alaska |
0:55.1 | Native women are about three times more likely to die from pregnancy related |
0:59.7 | complications than white women. In Louisiana, 72 black women will die for every 100,000 live |
1:06.8 | birds. According to World Bank rankings, that puts us right between Syria, a |
1:11.8 | country in the midst of a devastating civil war, |
1:15.4 | in Kyrgyzstan, which has a GDP per capita of about $1,200. |
1:21.2 | America, sweetie, we can do better. |
1:25.0 | This is here. |
1:27.0 | This is here the burn a podcast about the people ideas and politics that are |
1:40.1 | driving the Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign |
1:43.2 | and the movement to secure a dignified life |
1:45.7 | for everyone living in this country. |
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