Our infant mortality rates are stellar compared to the so called good ole days. The average family saw one or more of their children die and wealth was no barrier to that reality.
Also cancer did exist 100 years ago and before. (Cancer rates grow with the population of older people).
Our infant mortality rates compared to the rest of the developex world are awful. I just checked wiki and our under-5 mortality is one of the worst in the world?
Anyone who has traveled internationally and observed the children in other cultures will note the rather stark difference in the health of their children relative to ours. It is not common to see a lot of fat kids in other cultures, and it is unusual to see children in other countries wearing glasses at age 4, for example. Our children are on more medications for chronic problems which would be easily resolved by eating a proper human diet (ie. not the standard food pyramid). So what I have observed here vs overseas is confirmed by statistics. We’re never going to fix that problem until we admit that our children are way over-fed/over-sugared, over medicated, and truly under-nourished. That would require setting aside the pride and arrogance that we have in believing that the trash we shovel into our mouths isn’t related to the 50” waistlines I see everywhere. We have an exceptional Constitution and exceptional concepts of freedom/liberty, but very un-exceptional health concepts in this country. Actually compared to other countries, even ones in the third world, we are dumb-a$$es when it comes to food, diet and general health.