Does Obama want Universal Health Care because America has such a high Child Mortality Rate?

that is laughable. obama is for killing babies AFTER they are born

What a biased and loaded question.

BS, you are not Lincoln and you are not a Republican. Comrade Obamba wants universal health care because he is a socialist who wants all of his people sucking off the govt teat. America has a high infant mortality rate because we allow millions of poor people to come to this country every year and get free birthing for their babies. They come over the border by the hundreds of thousands from Mexico, to give birth in the USA.

If we didn't allow so many poor to enter our country every year, we wouldn't be rapidly turning into a third world country. You can keep your socialism, comrade Abe. Deport the invaders, reduce immigration, and this country will be much better off!

Comrade Abe, Harry K just kicked your but!!!

Infant mortality rates are skewed. It all depends on what you consider a "live birth".

From the following link:http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-doctor-is-in-infa...

"U.S. infant mortality rates (deaths of infants <1 year of age per 1,000 live births) are sometimes cited as evidence of the failings of the U.S. system of health care delivery. Universal health care, it’s argued, is why babies do better in countries with socialized medicine.

But in fact, the main factors affecting early infant survival are birth weight and prematurity. The way that these factors are reported — and how such babies are treated statistically — tells a different story than what the numbers reveal.

Low birth weight infants are not counted against the “live birth” statistics for many countries reporting low infant mortality rates.

According to the way statistics are calculated in Canada, Germany, and Austria, a premature baby weighing <500g is not considered a living child.

But in the U.S., such very low birth weight babies are considered live births. The mortality rate of such babies — considered “unsalvageable” outside of the U.S. and therefore never alive — is extraordinarily high; up to 869 per 1,000 in the first month of life alone. This skews U.S. infant mortality statistics.

When Canada briefly registered an increased number of low weight babies previously omitted from statistical reporting, the infant mortality rose from 6.1 per 1,000 to 6.4 per thousand in just one year."

Barack Obama would love universal healthcare because it would expand the government's control over one more aspect of our lives. John McCain opposes it because in a universal healthcare system we would be paying more money, for less quality...SEVERELY worse quality. I've personally heard people who live in European countries and Canada talk about their healthcare systems and they say that ours is by far the better choice. People in Canada are crossing the border to have operations done because the waiting lists are so long in their own country, they'd never receive care.

I don't know that universal health care is going to be much help to crack and AIDS babies. Harsh facts. Our mortality rate is due at least in part to bad life choices by the mothers.

Are other factors in play like poor pre-natal care for avoidable complications, you betcha. Clinics are already available for people who are willing to inconvenience themselves enough to get there and wait to be seen.

How many rejected artificial inseminations and implantations are in your numbers?

Yep...Obama loves babies and McCain hates em...you're spot on. Just look at how they vote on abortion for your answers. Obama definately wants to lower our infant mortality rate.

You're right susie...I'm such a hick. I beat my wife daily.

CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics shows 4,315,000 births in 2007 and the US infant mortality rate was 6.4/1000 that year. 4,315,000/1,000*6.4=27,616 infant deaths in 2007.

There are about 3,700 abortions everyday in the US. That equates to 1.37 MILLION per YEAR

abortionno.org, the most extensive compelation of abortion information I have found

But what do I know right susie?

Since Obama has made it quite clear that he doesn't want a woman burdened with a child - I doubt the infant mortality rate was ever considered.

The US counts all births as live births. Other countries do not count very low birth weight infants, and those infants who otherwise are not expected to survive, as live births.

states have health care for kids numbskull

counting abortion what is our child mortality rate?

It's sick that the Republican Party won't spend a dime to support pro-life inititives such as Social Security, S-Chip, and national medicine but is more than willing to put Wall Street on the dole. Sick, Sick, Sick

Obama don't care about babies, all he cares about is the power trip he is on.