U.S. gets poor grades for newborns' survival

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MsMacComb -> U.S. gets poor grades for newborns' survival (5/9/2006 2:51:51 PM)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12699453/ (Notice. No copy and paste to avoid twisted panties.)[:)]

Lordandmaster -> RE: U.S. gets poor grades for newborns' survival (5/9/2006 2:58:26 PM)
Yeah, this is an ongoing embarrassment. When we had that thread a few months ago about national health insurance, I pointed this out to the people who were pretending that we have the best health-care system in the world. I never got a satisfactory response.

MsMacComb -> RE: U.S. gets poor grades for newborns' survival (5/9/2006 3:04:18 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lordandmaster Yeah, this is an ongoing embarrassment. When we had that thread a few months ago about national health insurance, I pointed this out to the people who were pretending that we have the best health-care system in the world. I never got a satisfactory response. Quite often those that maintain we have the best of most things can thank a healthy trust fund. Being born rich makes it easy not to see the misery that so many Americans call a life (and of course elsewhere).

meatcleaver -> RE: U.S. gets poor grades for newborns' survival (5/9/2006 3:07:03 PM)
I've got to smile. We (UK) had the best of everything too until we found out we didn't.

MsMacComb -> RE: U.S. gets poor grades for newborns' survival (5/9/2006 3:38:51 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: meatcleaver I've got to smile. We (UK) had the best of everything too until we found out we didn't. What boggles my mind in the here-n-now (of the US) is that there is still such a high percentage of "sheeple" (mostly Bushophiles) that run around with their jingoistic proclamations doing the whole "Rah-Rah USA USA USA (chant)" while overwhelming evidence exists that our so called super power status is dwindling to say the least. We are ranking lower and lower on nearly every list/poll/study and this info is widespread througout the web/TV/radio/newspapers/periodicals etc. Yet they don't seem to know this. How is that possible? I mean we can understand those that live and breath FOX News but still. In the so called information age, how can so many be so bereft of information?

meatcleaver -> RE: U.S. gets poor grades for newborns' survival (5/9/2006 4:23:50 PM)
When I first started to travel, I would come back to Britain and tell my family and friends we really aren't that great but no one would believe me, they knew we were the best because many hadn't been abroad at that time they could put their head in the sand. When the justice system finally accepted we were locking up innocent people we had to begin to accept perhaps our justice system wasn't that great. When they realised that wasn't so great, the realisation began to spread that other things weren't that great. Sooner or later the flood gates will open.

NakedOnMyChain -> RE: U.S. gets poor grades for newborns' survival (5/9/2006 5:33:25 PM)
That's a scary article, to say the least. It was interesting to read that part of the blame is placed on short maternity leaves, obesity, and teen pregnancy (all valid factors, but often severely lacking or totally unavailable healthcare isn't mentioned except in passing.

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