Health Care Statistics in South Carolina (I'm Looking at You, Joe Wilson & Jim DeMint)

by Damozel |  If you crunch the numbers on "health-care statistics, such as teenage pregnancy rates, infant birth weight, premature births and infant mortality," guess which state comes at or near the tail end?  (Jason Linkins)  Since I'm South Carolinian by birth and upbringing, this really gets me down -- without really surprising me all that much.   For discussion, take a look below:

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/18/rachel-maddow-nails-south_n_291337.html

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