Re: Was The American Bombing Campaign In World War II A War Crime?

On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 12:53:09 +0100, "William Black"
<william.black@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"Greg Hennessy" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 11:45:26 +0100, "William Black"
<william.black@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I would venture to suggest that you have a point of view here.

The health system in the UK is demonstrably better than that in the USA
and
comparable with that in most other European countries.

Measured by what metric ?

The usual ones

Life expectancy

That has very little to do with the 'health system' in western society or
the resources lavished on it.

and infant mortality rate.

http://www.overpopulation.com/articles/2002/000019.html


"The primary reason Cuba has a lower infant mortality rate than the United
States is that the United States is a world leader in an odd category --
the percentage of infants who die on their birthday. In any given year in
the United States anywhere from 30-40 percent of infants die before they
are even a day old.

Why? Because the United States also easily has the most intensive system of
emergency intervention to keep low birth weight and premature infants alive
in the world. The United States is, for example, one of only a handful
countries that keeps detailed statistics on early fetal mortality -- the
survival rate of infants who are born as early as the 20th week of
gestation.

How does this skew the statistics? Because in the United States if an
infant is born weighing only 400 grams and not breathing, a doctor will
likely spend lot of time and money trying to revive that infant. If the
infant does not survive -- and the mortality rate for such infants is in
excess of 50 percent -- that sequence of events will be recorded as a live
birth and then a death.

In many countries, however, (including many European countries) such severe
medical intervention would not be attempted and, moreover, regardless of
whether or not it was, this would be recorded as a fetal death rather than
a live birth. That unfortunate infant would never show up in infant
mortality statistics. "


Which says something about the US system which apologists for centrally
planned health care might not want to care.

The US infant mortality rate is about 25% above the UK.
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