Kurt Ullman wrote in
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Truthman wrote:

Hey knuckle-dragger, look up health care percent of GNP around the
world, then look up health care rankings around the world.
You can even use those exact words. That way you don't have to
think. They invented something called "the internet" a while back.
People with just a little bit of brains don't have to eat the
bull**** of people with less brains - that's you.
Bye now.

The problem with America's figures is that they lay a lot of the blame
for social issues on the medical system. There is a pretty fair
correlation between number of teen pregnancies (and single mother
households) and extremely low birth weight babies. In turn there is a
relationship between low birth weight and infant survival. We lead the
league in that respect largely for social reasons and not medical
reasons. Even among developed countries, those with high teen preg
rates also have worse infant mortality.
Another sidelite with infant mortality is that many developed
countries don't even count babies below a certain weight as live
births. We do. And we try to save them.
Life expectancy also has societal implications. Every teenager
that dies in a drive by or from drugs or just piles his car into a
tree lowers the life expectancy much more than keeping a geezer alive
between 70 and 80.
Indeed there are some rather interesting indications that if it
wasn't for the medical system our figures in both these areas would be
even worse. We put most low birth weight babies into ICUs and fight
like hell to save them.. and do a fair %age of the time. There are
indications that our trauma systems may be saving more of the victims
of drive bys as shown by a decrease in the murder rate but no changes
in the shooting rate (thus turning murder investigations into
attempted murder investigations).
These are not as cut and dried as many would have us beleive.

I agree with Kurt!! It makes me in favor of freely available
contraceptives and abortion. Availability, not coercion.

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Han
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