CHIP offers health care free or at a low cost to families whose income is too high for Medicaid. American Dietetic Association's Washington Report , September 1998. The U.S., despite all it's affluence, rates higher than 24 other nations in infant mortality rate. Every hour, four babies die.
Black infants are more than twice as likely to die before their first birthday as white infants.
One in five infant deaths is due to birth defects. Every year, more than 5,500 babies are born weighing less than one pound.