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[velvetpage]

This is so depressing, and so NOT surprising.

When generational poverty is well into its third century; when education is seen as something the rich, white folks get; when that education pointedly excludes such basic health information as sex ed, including birth control and how to protect from STDs; when bureaucrats see medicaid as a series of caseloads to be reduced, rather than as communities of people who know of no other way to live; when people pull out "personal responsibility" as an excuse for cutting people off of the only health care they have any possible access to, without offering any help to replace that health care or get the kind of job that would provide it; is it any wonder that babies are dying needlessly, in much higher numbers than they should be in what is, theoretically, the richest nation on the planet?

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[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Even if you get rid of that notion, you're still left with a country that is fairly well-off by pretty much every objective measure - and yet, the infant mortality rate is climbing instead of falling.