WAIT, I THOUGHT OBAMACARE WAS GOING TO FIX ALL THIS: Maternal Mortality Rate in U.S. Rises, Defying Global Trend, Study Finds. “The United States has become an outlier among rich nations in maternal deaths, according to data released Wednesday by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, a research group funded by the Gates Foundation and based at the University of Washington. There were 28 maternal deaths — defined as deaths due to complications from pregnancy or childbirth — per 100,000 births in the United States in 2013, up from 23 in 2005, the institute found. The rate in 2013, the most recent year for which the institute had detailed data for the United States, was more than triple Canada’s.”