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«(...) Each year in the United States, more than 23,000
infants die before reaching their first birthday. Though the mortality
rate varies widely by state and county, the average in the United States
is higher than in the rest of the world’s wealthy countries, worse than
in Poland and Slovakia. Because infants are so vulnerable, their
survival is considered a benchmark for a society’s overall health. What
our infant-mortality rate tells us is that, despite spending more money
on health care than any other country in the world, the United States is
not very healthy. Looked at closely, it reveals that particular groups
of Americans are starkly unwell.(...)»à América profunda
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