Stephen Schoenbaum, M.D., M.P.H., EVP at The Commonwealth Fund, commented last week to national leaders in D.C. on the United States’ continued poor performance on measures like mortality amenable to health care, life expectancy and infant mortality. Infant mortality has actually slipped backwards over the past 2 years. According to Dr. Schoenbaum, this is due to flawed preventive care and a broken health care system that often fails to identify underlying chronic conditions. With respect to infant mortality, our performance is complicated due to some of our unique social issues like drug abuse and obesity. Dr. Schoenbaum calls for health system reform with an emphasis on measured quality for prevention — sound familiar?

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