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To: i-node who wrote (214750)	1/12/2005 1:54:13 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) of 1573989

re: Now, stop trying to change the subject and defend the article against my statement that infant mortality is not a good predictor of healthcare system quality. Where did the author say that? Did you read the article? Those numbers, buried in a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, didn't get much attention. But they are part of a pattern of recent statistics dribbling out of the federal government suggesting that for those on the bottom in America, life in our new Gilded Age is getting crueler. "America's children are at greater risk than they've been in for at least a decade," said Dr. Irwin Redlener, associate dean at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and president of the Children's Health Fund. "The rising rate of infant mortality is an early warning that we're headed in the wrong direction, with no relief in sight." The author makes the claim that the system, wrt to children, is inferior to 44 countries in the world including Cuba. Do you dispute that? Is death not a good yardstick for quality wrt childrens health care? John

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