On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, William T Goodall wrote:
>
> 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.
Some choose to go to all-black or mostly-black churches, others don't. I
could go on for a good number of sentences on the subject, but I don't
know that you'd be interested. If you care about what I know on the
subject and would like me to type for awhile, let me know.
Julia
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