Saving Baby’s
Good news and bad news about our children. Around the world 7.7 million children below the age of five will die in 2010. This is down 35% from the 11.9 million children that perished in 1990. The bad news is the United States child mortality is not keeping pace.
It is incredible that the richest nation in the world, who spends the most on health care, is ranked 42nd in this key global metric. Not a surprise, the ‘socialized medicine’ countries like Canada, France, Sweden, and Great Britain are ahead of America. U.S. toddler deaths are not limited to the poor and destitute. The American 7.2 deaths per 1,000 are evident among the wealthy.
We just completed a long and difficult debate on a new national health plan. Its stormy wake will likely impact November elections. At 50,000 feet the cries of deficit spending and socialism echo. On the ground U.S. toddlers and babies are dying twice as fast as in Singapore. The United States is not hampered by the same poverties, wars, and diseases of others. It is time we focus more energy and emotion on how U.S. health dollars are invested, and less on the rhetoric. The future of our most precious citizens depends upon it.
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