Headline:

U.S. TRAILS FAR BEHIND EUROPE IN INFANT MORTALITY

Opening line:

The bad news about the U.S. health system just keeps coming.

Sounds pretty terrible. But it's actually a lie (as far as this story is concerned)—as the rest of the news story and the radio broadcast attest to. What skewers the U.S. numbers is the higher rate of deaths among preterm Black babies born in the U.S. Now before you call Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson, it has nothing to do with "racism"—though it does have to do with race. After taking all factors into consideration, including level of education and financial status, Black women in this country (for some as yet unknown reason) have a much higher rate of giving birth to preterm babies that succumb to death. The good news is:

The U.S. actually compares favorably with Europe in survival of preemies, according to the CDC research. The problem is, there are so many more infants being born too early in the U.S. One in every eight babies born in America is born too early.

Listen here for the full story. It goes into much greater depth than the article I linked to on NPR's website.