USA in fragile state of health

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Monday November 08, 2004 · 5:52 PM PST

2004/11/08 · 17:52

Interesting article in today's USA Today regarding the annual report, "America's Health: State Health Rankings". In the 90's improvements in health were running at 1.5% a year. Since 2000, those improvements have leveled off to 0.2% a year. Some interesting highlights:

"The healthiest states and their percentage above the national norm: Minnesota, 25%; New Hampshire, 23.9%; Vermont, 22.8%; Hawaii, 17.7%; and Utah, 17.6%.

The least healthy and their percentage below the national norm: Arkansas, -12.1%; South Carolina, -12.9%; Tennessee, -13.1%; Mississippi, -20.2%; and Louisiana, -21.3%." Read More

Virginia Paper: "Horrible President Must Go"

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Sunday October 17, 2004 · 7:22 AM PDT

2004/10/17 · 07:22

A scathing opinion article written by one of the editors of The Free Lance Star, a Fredericksburg, Virginia area newspaper. The area is predominately Republican and the state hasn't gone to a Democrat in decades. The editoral board of the newspaper endorsed Bush of course.

http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2004/102004/10172004/1537409

Some highlights:

"Some give President Bush high marks for his leadership immediately after Sept. 11, 2001, and for his focus on homeland security in the post-9/11 era. History, however, may prove these to be among his key shortcomings.

Americans would have rallied around Ronald McDonald on the evening of Sept. 11 and in the days and weeks after, which is essentially what we did. Since then, rather than focus on real homeland security, which remains unacceptably porous, the president has led us into a costly two-front war."

"If Bush had been president during the Cuban missile crisis, we might well be living in a post-apocalyptic world now. Maybe we wouldn't be alive at all."

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