Quote Originally Posted by FlashLackey View Post
According to both of these rightwing blog and thinktank propaganda sources for my favorite flavor of koolaid, the way that different countries report live-births varies significantly:

http://confutata.wordpress.com/2009/...ant-mortality/
http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA547...iveHealth.html
Fixed.

Hmmm, Central Intelligence Agency... or partisan extremists pushing a political agenda... I think I'll stick with "A".

This is a perfect example of "Classic FL reasoning", if the propaganda FL needs to believe doesn't match the facts, then the facts must be wrong.

Quote Originally Posted by FlashLackey View Post
Infant mortality rates are flawed measurements of healthcare quality for the same reason that life expectancy rates that include non-healthcare related accidental deaths are. Many non-healthcare related factors influence child mortality rates. For instance, education of the mother, race and birth-weight.
So your argument is that the US has greater infant mortality not only due to worse healthcare, but also substandard education, lack of nutrition, and racial inequality?
OK, I can agree with that, and believe we should work on fixing those areas as well as healthcare.
Glad we could find one thing to agree upon.