Monday, March 22, 2010

Are we France yet?

Woke up this morning and see that the people's House has passed some health care improvements. Yippee! Our baby can stay on our health care till he turns 27!

I am glad that some small progress has been made towards having the USA join the rest of the industrialized world in the provision of health care. I am ever hopeful that our infant mortality rate will slowly creep downward. Right now we rank between Faroe Islands and Guam, at 6.26 deaths per live births. Perhaps in a few years we'll be closer to France, at 3.33. I guess it's too much to hope that we can match or exceed Singapore at 2.31.

Truly it's a great day and yet we must keep on hammering away at the odd notion of health care as a profit center before we get to health care as a basic right. Hang on, we'll get there eventually.


Source: http://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?c=us&v=29

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