This is a low number compared with almost every other advanced country.
In most advanced countries, the government provides everyone with health insurance.
The relations of the advanced countries to one another were also changing.
"We have never seen so many different measures come together in an advanced country - and not work."
Table 16-5 shows data for several advanced countries in 1983.
But nobody really knew what would happen in an advanced country.
There are cases like this on a daily basis in the least advanced countries.
Yet the response you'd expect from an advanced country never happened.
These eight states also cut quite a figure when ranked against some of the world's most advanced countries.
The other advanced countries have come to terms with this.