Our Infant Mortality Conundrum

No matter where you stand on the whole health-care debate, it's tough to argue with the fact that our revamped system needs to address our appallingly high rate of infant mortality. Though the American economy is the largest in the OECD, our babies perish more frequently than the organization's average. In fact, our national infant mortality rate is only slightly better than Lithuania's, and it's slightly worse than Slovakia's. And as the chart above shows, no improvement has been made in...