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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (8545)	8/21/2009 12:53:49 PM
From: Archie Meeties	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

US infant mortality remains 29th if you back out those differences. The incidence of ELBW (extremly low birth weight) infants is very small, <0.1% of all births. All of those differences noted in the pajama article refer to the same subset (<26 wks = ELBW, etc). The author lists them as if they were different, but they are all the same subset. It is an exteremely small group. Backing out those differences, as I did, and you still get a ranking of 29th.