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To: JohnM who wrote (109529)4/15/2005 9:23:57 PM
From: kech  Read Replies (1) of 793624
 
Nope, Krugman makes very specific points here: infant death mortality rate and lowered life expectancy.

I can assure you from personal experience that the infant mortality statistics are very dependent on what one calls a live birth. Even children that are not viable as early as 19 weeks are considered "live births" at many Catholic hospitals or even non-catholic hospitals with nuns present on request. Pre-term labor births as young as 24 weeks are kept in life support. Many don't make it and make the "infant mortality statistics" look low. But in Cuba, they would never have been given the chance, yet despite this, it doesn't reduce their infant mortality statistics. Krugman of course glosses over all these details in his indictment of US healthcare.
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