PEDIATRICS Vol. 90 No. 6 December 1992, pp. 1005-1006
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Money Alone Won't Do It

DAVID COPELAND MD, FAAP1

1 Department of Pediatrics, Methodist Medical Center of Illinois, Peoria, IL

To the Editor.—

After reading the supplement, "Preventive Health Care for Young Children" (Pediatrics. 1992;89:983-998),1 I was left with the conclusion that the authors believe more money together with improved tracking and delivery will raise US standards to the level of other industrialized countries. It seems more probable, however, that the current rate of production of welfare babies has the capacity to stay ahead of any system we are likely to fund. Further, this burgeoning dependent subculture is a problem which similarly burdens no other country with whom we are being compared.