Let the Free Market Decide...

[FUCK THE POLICE]

I think we'll be able to solve this with the free market, and those health-savings accounts Bush is pushing.


U.S. has second worst newborn death rate in modern world, report says
CNN

An estimated 2 million babies die within their first 24 hours each year worldwide and the United States has the second worst newborn mortality rate in the developed world, according to a new report.
American babies are three times more likely to die in their first month as children born in Japan, and newborn mortality is 2.5 times higher in the United States than in Finland, Iceland or Norway, Save the Children researchers found.

Only Latvia, with six deaths per 1,000 live births, has a higher death rate for newborns than the United States, which is tied near the bottom of industrialized nations with Hungary, Malta, Poland and Slovakia with five deaths per 1,000 births.

"The United States has more neonatologists and neonatal intensive care beds per person than Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom, but its newborn rate is higher than any of those countries," said the annual State of the World's Mothers report.


http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/parenting/05/08/mothers.index/index.html

It's what you get with a shitty healthcare system...

I'll only say that this isn't absolutely as absolutely terrible as it may at first seem. But with how much the US citizenry spends on healthcare we deserve better.

 

[Chapdog]

well if i can interject.. I live in Massachusetts.. probably lower on the totem pole of states with large percents of immigrants compared to southern states. My wife is a Labor and Delivery nurse at a major hospital. She said its staggering the amount of illegals that come into the hospital after zero prenatal and pregnancy care to have babies.. only because they are having complications and cant do it with a midwife. She said of the baby deaths 9 out of 10 are from illegals.

Now i dont know if that makes a difference here but I figured i share the stories i get from her. And btw she is a dem leaning independent and in a union.