Word: infantability
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...pork, however, comes wrapped in a khaki uniform. The federal budget is larded with highly questionable nonmilitary projects that receive lavish funding while more urgent national needs like fighting infant mortality and improving education are strapped for cash. None of the individual programs is large enough to worsen the $318 billion deficit significantly. But lumped together, the plethora of porcine projects adds huge sums to federal outlays. Freshman Republican Senator Bob Smith of New Hampshire has been combing the budget for examples of nondefense pork, specifically projects that were never voted or debated but somehow were slipped into appropriations bills...
There was good news and bad news in the infant-mortality statistics released last week by the Department of Health and Human Services. The number of babies who died before their first birthday fell from 9.7 per 1,000 in 1989 to 9.1 per 1,000 last year, the largest annual drop since 1981. The decline in infant mortality was 6%, in contrast to an average 2.5% annual decline in the 1980s. But the U.S. still trails 19 other nations, including some, like Singapore and Spain, that are less affluent. More troubling still, the death rate for black infants...
...Several years after the clinic opened in 1976, the rate of infant deaths was 16.2 per 1,000 births; its efforts since then to provide better prenatal care and medical services have helped improve the odds that children will live to celebrate their first birthday. But the program barely survives on a mix of federal, state and foundation money, and the demand for services is overwhelming. The clinic's doctors and six outreach staff members currently treat 170 families, a number that could easily triple if the staff could handle the load. More than 90% of the patients...
...clinic is located in Gary, a one-hour drive over twisting roads from their spartan four-room house in Panther, Rachel, 19, never missed an appointment with her doctor. "She was one of our prize patients," says Kem Short, an outreach worker in the clinic's maternal and infant health program. John, 24, kept an untouched $10 bill in his pocket to buy gasoline for his old truck when Rachel went into labor...
...Bush Administration decides to rob Peter to pay Paul for its infant- mortality program, the clinic could suffer decreased funding. Any cutback in the program's $130,000 annual budget could be disastrous. "We can't afford to lose what we have," says Patton. "To us, what could be more logical than saving babies? But when you put a price tag on it, it becomes something else. It becomes a political thing...