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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> You can't mandate prenatal health care.  If you remove the drug babies and
> the teenage pregnancies and other folks that don't seek health care even
> though they qualify for sliding scale clinics or Medicaide, the infant
> mortality rate would be more intune with the countries you listed.

Yes, as I was reading the article I wondered how much drugs play a part in 
infant mortality rates as well as other non-fatal infant health problems. 
Our heavy drug use by poor pregnant women is yet another area where we have 
failed. Poverty and ill health are conjoined. As long as we fail to 
effectively deal with both we will have inferior American health and 
quality of life status among the world's presumably lesser countries.