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

To: Archie Meeties who wrote (8550)	8/21/2009 1:21:09 PM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

US infant mortality remains 29th if you back out those differences. You have not shown that to be so. You backed out ONE difference (giving no source and little detail). This was all you provided - "IOW, the US infant mortality rate would change from 6.85 to 6.84 if we used the same statistics as Canada, Germany, and Australia and 100% of those born under 500g did not survive. " You didn't say what changes would be made to use "the same statistics as Canda, Germany and Australia" so there is no way of knowing if adequate statistical changes where made. And low birth weight is only one of several differences in calculating infant mortality and only one of a huge number of factors that determine how many infants actually die.