A new report from the Institute of Medicine took a long, hard look at the American healthcare system and found that we lead on healthcare spending but lag on patient outcomes.

But we knew this already. Many other reports have found the exact same thing.

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There is, however, some striking -- and troubling -- new research in the report: Our infant mortality rate is nearly double the rate in countries like Japan and Sweden.

What's more troubling is that researchers aren't sure why, exactly. As the Washington Post reports: