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To: tejek who wrote (4344)	1/14/2005 10:51:36 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 7936

I don't believe that the US is the only country in the world to provide "severe medical intervention" for preemies. I don't think so either, and the author of the article doesn't say any such thing. But nice straw man... The US is almost certainly provides more aggressive intervention for preemies then Cuba, and most other countries. Even in a number of developed countries you don't get the level of intervention that you get in the US for sub 1 pound babies. But it isn't about the intervention as much as it is about the how the statistics are measured. In the US a 400 gram baby that doesn't survive will count against the infant mortality rate. In most countries, and according to the World Health Organization's standards it does not. Tim