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To: TimF who wrote (18333)	3/20/2007 4:21:49 PM
From: Webster Groves	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

The reason infant mortality is used as a guide to health care is because it correlates with availability of both pre- and post-natal care. Many factors are of course involved, but here we are comparing statistics amongst western countries where generally similar medical practices are followed. The quality of medical care itself is not necessarily the issue, because we still need to know the availability of this care. Hence the use of infant mortality - a real world comparison. No one argues that some of the finest doctors of the world practice in the US, and that the facilities available to most of these docs are also top-notch (Walter Reed excepted, of course). The Shah of Iran could go to the Mayo clinic and get the best care in the world, but could an indigent on skid row do the same ? This whole discussion is absurd, because neither the Canadian nor American health care system is likely to change in the near future. I am glad that regardless of my health or personal finances, I will have access to reasonable care - not necessarily the best but reasonable. wg