Word: infantalizing
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...would be rated critical and worsening. Though the country has physicians with unsurpassed training, its health-care delivery is among the most expensive, least efficient and least equitable in the developed world. Of the industrialized nations, the U.S. ranks 17th in life expectancy and an appalling 20th in preventing infant mortality. Yet the prospect of a national health-insurance system, long advocated as a solution, alarms many doctors. They see it as an intrusion by Big Government into their professional lives -- and, perhaps more important, as a threat to their high incomes...
...often on Houston's impoverished Northside, dead babies are forgotten. The infant-mortality rate in this Hispanic barrio rivals that of Poland. Almost 16 out of every 1,000 babies will perish before their first birthday, compared with a national infant-death rate of 10 per 1,000 Countless others are born too early or too small, presaging a wretched future of long-term health and learning problems. The U.S. is a First World nation afflicted by a Third World curse...
...afraid and poor: half the families earn less than $12,800 a year, and 19% are on welfare. More than one-third of the Northside's 13,500 residents are women able to bear children, but until last year, no one had mounted a committed effort to prevent unnecessary infant deaths. Then Joan Mahon appeared...
...House Budget Committee, were intended to prod the Federal Government into spending more money on researching pediatric AIDS. The witness, wife of TV star Paul Michael Glaser (Starsky and Hutch), had contracted the HIV virus from a blood transfusion nine years ago and passed it along to her infant daughter Ariel and son Jacob. Since Ariel's death in 1988, the Glasers have devoted much of their energies to publicizing the plight of AIDS-infected children...
...only families that must decide. Doctors are wondering when, in an era of untamed technology, they should stand back and let their patients die -- or even help death along. Economists are calculating a sort of social triage: at a time when infant mortality is scandalously high and public health - care is a shambles, does it make sense for taxpayers to spend tens of thousands of dollars a year to keep each unconscious patient alive? Lawmakers are struggling with how to draft laws carefully enough to protect life while respecting individual choice. Theologians are debating how sacred life...