Donald Light, Ph.D. What about pushing to make health care a "human right"?  Is that a good strategy? PNHP fully endorses advocacy for health care as a human right as part of a single payer campaign. But some have adopted the "health care as a human right" slogan as a cover for inadequate reforms and retreat from confrontation with the powerful forces that ruin our health care system. PNHP has embraced not just a laudable moral stance, but a rigorous approach to health policy evidence and a clear vision of how morality can be achieved - with single payer national health insurance. US infant mortality is not high compared to other countries.  It just appears that way because of the way we classify life births In 2005, the U.S. ranked 30th in the world in infant mortality. The most rigorous investigation of infant mortality in the U.S. and Europe found that even excluding infants &lt; 22 weeks, the U.S. has appallingly high infant mortality (5.8 per 1,000 births versus 3.0 in Norway and Sweden).  Much of the excess mortality is related to the much higher proportion of premature births in the U.S, the period when infant mortality is greatest.  If the U.S. had the same distribution of births by gestational age as Sweden, nearly 8,000 infant deaths would be averted each year, and the U.S. infant mortality rate would be 1/3 lower.  The Infant mortality rate in the U.S. for preterm (&lt; 37 weeks) births is comparable to that of