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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (110366)	1/3/2008 7:58:54 PM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (1) of 132070

KT, The Stoessel articles were among the group of articles I originally read. In my original response on this topic, I said there were a wide variety of statistical issues that caused bad stats for the U.S. That's what made the study bogus. The premature baby stat just stuck in my head because it made a bigger impact on me than some of the others. Stoessel does talk about premature babies in a later article in the series in reference to Cuba. My memory of how broad that premature baby stat was may have been off, but you get the gist of what I was saying. The stats suck. The U.S. is doing better than it looks in healthcare. Here's part of it. "Cuba claims it has low infant mortality, but doctors tell us that Cuban obstetricians abort a fetus when they think there might be a problem. Dr. Julio Alfonso told us he used to do 70-80 abortions a day. And here's an even more devious way of distorting infant-mortality data: Some doctors tell us that if a baby dies within a few hours of birth, Cuban doctors don't count him or her as ever having lived."

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