They are lying about our American healthcare...

One of the main reasons the progressive left uses to justify government run healthcare is our infant mortality rates. Here are some basic facts.
1) Forty percent of all infant deaths occur in the first 24 hours of life.
2) In the United States, all infants who show signs of life at birth (take a breath, move voluntarily, have a heartbeat) are considered alive.
3) If a child in Hong Kong or Japan is born alive but dies within the first 24 hours of birth, he or she is reported as a “miscarriage” and does not affect the country’s reported infant mortality rates.
4) The length of pregnancy considered “normal” is 37-41 weeks. In Belgium and France — in fact, in most European Union countries — any baby born before 26 weeks gestation is not considered alive and therefore does not “count” against reported infant mortality rates.

If these basic facts are inputed into the formula then our infant mortality rate is the best in the world...!

(Originally Submitted by sean on Wed, 10/07/2009 - 16:30 @ http://www.sean4senate.com/node/53 )