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To: LindyBill who wrote (31516)	2/26/2004 5:11:42 AM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793648

We try to save premi's the rest of the world doesn't bother with Shouldn't that decrease our infant mortality? But you did highlight one of the problems in the US: more premature babies than other countries. And this is directly tied to lack of free, widely available prenatal care -- a very cheap way to keep infant mortality down. It's ironic we spend a fortune trying to keep premies alive (with little success), when free prenatal care would solve the premie problem at far less expense. In 2002 the US infant mortality went up. The couple of articles I read huffed and puffed about a range of explanations but missed the key one: the number of Americans without health insurance also went up considerably.