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The state of American health care

Here's a headline from an AP article published today: "U.S. Newborn Survival Rate Ranks Low". The opening sentence of the article reads: "America may be the world's superpower, but its survival rate for newborn babies ranks near the bottom among modern nations, better only than Latvia."