On 30 Jul 2007, at 02:41, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
> At 01:02 PM Wednesday 7/18/2007, Dan Minette wrote:
>> Subject: Re: U.S. health care
>>
>>
>>
>> [...] Let me give you an example from one of the clearest numbers for
>> which the US performs relatively poorly: infant mortality.
>>
>> The US's rate, about 7/5000 live births is far above the EU rate of
>> 5.6/1000.  This is a horrid statistic.
>>
>> We find, though, that the white, non-Hispanic rate is close to the  
>> EU:
>> 5.8/1000.  The black rate, on the other hand, is very high: 13.8.
>>
[...]
>> Further, one sees that even black women who completed college have a
>> significantly worse rate than white women who haven't completed grade
>> school. 10.6/1000 vs. 6.3/1000.  These data indicate that  
>> something besides
>> income is affecting the situation.

Blacks also go to different churches of course.


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