Another reminder?

[Muckerheide <muckerheide@mediaone.net>]

NYTimes July 31, 1998

          Health Report Finds Some Notable Gains

          By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON -- A report on Thursday on the nation's health has good news over
all: infant mortality fell to a record low of 7.3 deaths per 1,000 births in
1996, and life expectancy reached an all-time high of 76.1 years. 

          But the report, prepared by the National Center on Health Statistics
and made public by the Department of Health and Human Services, also found
that people with less money and less education continued to die sooner and
suffer more often from virtually every health problem. 

          Poor, less-educated Americans are more likely to have underweight
babies and are less likely to have them vaccinated, the report said. They are
more likely to smoke and less likely to avoid heart disease, lung cancer and
diabetes. 

          From cradle to grave, money matters in health, the report found. 

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Now why are we committed to impoverish the nation in spending $100 Billions in
'clean up' of 'rad contamination' at sites in the fiction of protecting public
health (beyond stabilizing waste tanks and equivalent sources)?

And HHS would lead the charge against terminating such waste!?

Regards, Jim Muckerheide
muckerheide@mediaone.net
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