The New York Times: Health Care? Ask Cuba

Feynman insists that an intelligent man must always doubt his knowledge. This opinion by Kristof (email nicholas@nytimes.com) chastises the US for having infant mortality worse than Cuba and China; and uses it to justify more government spending (presumably federal, based on his examples).

He never doubts their numbers though; he seemed almost glad to see that they were better than ours. Doesn't anybody think that they intended them to be better than ours? Would you want to tell Castro that the infant mortality rate was worse than the US's? Would you want to report that your hospital's rate was worse?

BTW, I wonder if any of those infant mortality numbers included abortions.