Carter-K8VT wrote:

John Barnard wrote:


Check the link that I posted awhile back concerning Canada/USA preventable
medical deaths. Your system still manages to kill off more than our system
does. Both countries need to take some action on this issue.

Sadly, our infant mortality rate is approximately twice as bad as that
in Cuba.

I was in Cuba of January this year. The people are remarkably inventive and
resourceful. Some of those 1950's cars that they somehow manage to maintain -
way too cool! I' m glad that I had the chance to get to visit before the
hurricane season. They have a very good medical system and quite the number of
well-trained specialists and their doctors are in big demand in that part of the
world.

I've seen various reasons as to why the USA has a relatively high (for a first
world country) infant mortality rate. Some say it's due to less than adequate
universal health care, some say it's due to the high number of Cesarean births,
or it may be due to the use of drugs to induce labour and so on. In all
likelihood it's a combination of all those reasons. Part of the problem is the
"drugs for everything" mentality of Big Pharma. Unfortunately, this leads to the
"thalidomides" and the "vioxxes" of the world. Lifestyle management (diet,
exercise, etc.) tends to get tossed by the wayside when pills are available.

JB