Poor Patients Who Are Healthy?

The L.A.Times reports:

Why Latinos aren't sicker — a phenomenon known to health experts as the Latino paradox — is puzzling to public health experts, given the link between disadvantage and high disease and mortality rates.

In overall mortality rates and infant mortality rates, two standard measures of a population's health, Latinos' numbers approach and sometimes surpass those of whites.

In Los Angeles County in 2003, the age-adjusted mortality rate for Latinos was 535 per 100,000, 33% less than for non-Hispanic whites and 52% less than for blacks, according to the most recent data from the county's Department of Public Health.

Nationally that year, Latinos' mortality rate was 621, 25% less than whites' and 43% less than blacks', according to National Vital Statistics Reports, published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The L.A. Times seems rather upset, that the whole socialist narrative of the poor needing more of society's resourses to be healthy,isn't supported by facts.