Single-Payer National Health

Grace-Marie Turner, president of the Galen Institute, do you have any idea of what the Mission Statement of the Galen Institute is?

http://www.galen.org/component,8/action,show_content/id,18/

Surprise, surprise that a republican think tank would assume that the infant mortality rate in the black community was mainly due to drug use, street violence and obesity!

 

Those were two seperate things in my quote. The first part was about infant mortality being higher with Black women even when recieving good medical care. The second part was about other factors contributing to Americans' lifespan that have nothing to do with healthcare like drug use and too many homicides in America compared to other countries.

 

It's part of the article on Infant Mortality.

And you cut the quote short. Turner's comment was followed by this one:

 

Some food for thought:

http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/08/11/us_life_span_shorter/

 

If reliance on private healthcare was part of the problem then why aren't white women who also use this private healthcare having the same problems with infant mortality like Black women are?

According to the link below Black women may be dealing with stresses that other women aren't dealing with and this may be contributing to their problems with infant mortality. Issues involving race and gender may be affecting Black women combined with the fact that the majority of Black kids are being born to single mothers may be adding stress to Black pregnancies not found with white pregnancies.

- Journal - “Sounding the Alarm on Black Infant Mortality: College-educated Black Women Are Also*At-Risk”

 

Motion health care coverage is not a racial issue. Your notion that black people and white people are different on some basic level is misguided. It's real simple, those with countries that provide health care without looking at it as a money making enterprise have a lower infant mortality rate and longer average lifespan, this country lets private businesses devise health plans that cost more and provide less. It's has nothing to do with race.
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The mortality rate in private hospitals is higher than in publicly funded hospitals.