Word: caring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years, the problem of infant mortality in America has been a case study of the failure of our health care system...
...spend and spend and spend for health care--$550 billion in 1988, comprising 11.5 percent of our GNP. Yet America's infant mortality rate ranks 18th among industrialized nations. The rate of Black infant mortality is twice that of whites and is comparable to rates in many Third World nations...
THIS disparity between high costs and low benefits partly exists because of a profound bias towards institutional health care in this country. Expensive neonatal hospital units which miraculously save the lives of low birthweight babies are rewarded with glamorous news stories and bigger budgets. In contrast, less popular residential clinics which deliver prevention-oriented prenatal care are massively underfunded...
...recent study by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) indicated that an investment in prenatal care for those who cannot afford it would save hundreds of infant lives, prevent hundreds more from being born with low birthweight, and avoid thousands of dollars in neonatal care expenditures. Prenatal care pays for itself four times over...
...think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black -- or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about. We don't care whether they have babies...