Yesterday I flipped through The Economist's "Pocket World in Figures 2007." It lists the highest and lowest infant mortality rates by country. The list lowest mortality rates lists the top 25 countries. The US doesn't make the list.
We spend more on maternity care than any other country in the world, by far. Why aren't we in the top 25 of infant survival rates? We are doing something wrong.
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Your new president-elect had to say (to get elected) that this was the greatest country... blah blah. Now that he has the bully pulpit, perhaps he will try to make that more true than the world knows it is. Having lived in your country for 22 years, I can honestly say that if the people with integrity and vision, such as yourself, were to prevail, it might yet be...
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