Just read a Yahoo news report..

I honestly don't understand why there is such resistance to a single-payer system in the US. I live in Canada, and the one thing I never have to worry about is what happens to me if I get sick. Of course you have a high infant mortality rate if women can't even access basic prenatal care.

National healthcare does not guarantee compliance. But future children are worth that investment, I think. I would like to see birth control and pregnancy covered for all Americans. We can move to childhood insurance and up from there. There is no need to make it an all or nothing deal.

I have to disagree slightly to a point. At least here in the south, if you're any race BUT white, you get access to the Medicare/Medicaid system easily. If you're white, you get denied. White people are always turned down due to income requirements not being met, place to live is too high class and you have your own car. Yet if you're black, living in a $250 a month government housing complex while driving a $75,000 Cadillac Escalade with $7800 rims you automatically qualify. But there are some races and this includes blacks that are just too ignorant to know about proper pre-natal care. Kinda hard to teach someone that they need to go to the doctor every X weeks when they are pergnant when they either don't speak English or they just don't care.