America's Infant Mortality Rate

Don Boudreaux addresses America's high infant mortality rates which are sometimes used as a justification for implementing some form of national health care.  Boudreaux, however, cites an article in the Economist which suggests that American health care is so advanced that we've raised the bar on infant mortality -- babies who once wouldn't have been born at all now stand a chance of birth -- and death.

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