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datGuy writes:

in response to audrackos#256732:

Too often people like to compare apples to oranges. The infant mortality rate in Europe is better than the US. This has nothing to do with the health care system or access to the health care system. It is a socio-economic fact, which many blithely choose to ignore.
Note that in Europe, only 3% of households are single parent households.
In the United States the percentage is much higher: With 12% of households being led by a single mother.
The European Union Infant Mortality rate is 5.61/1000 live births as compared to the US rate of 6.06/1000
The correlation between infant mortality and poverty go hand in hand. That poverty is rampant among the single mother households is clearly demonstrated in this study
The easiest solution to the cycle of poverty and high infant mortality is to stop creating single mothers. You are correct in that many conservatives would balk at paying for mandatory birth control. However the left is no less guilty. To interfere with the ‘reproductive rights of minorities’ ie mandating birth control for those receiving government benefits has been likened to genocide.

that is a mix of very selective facts and that when connected become inaccurate ones.

The CIA factbook for EU includes a number of new members which were and remain very 2nd world. Try comparing UK, France, Germany or even Japan or Canada.

Please also try and include like studies for that data. Your single parent HH data comes from two sources - created for two DIFFERENT purposes. The OECD conveniently calculates that data for all of the nations I mention and arrives at very different results. You have to be very careful when mix matching data.

If you do you these things you will find both Canada and UK have MORE single parent families and have LESS income - all while provide superior health outcomes - in particular Infant Mortality.

