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Originally Posted by loquitur
Host, I take it you didn't adjust things like, for instance, the greater number of preemie kids kept alive in the US, which brings down average life expectancy? or the higher number of miles driven, which does likewise? or any number of other culturally-driven factors?
Which criteria do you deem significant? Personally, I value personal freedoms quite a bit. OF course you wont' find much of that in Cuba...........
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Can you explain the "preemie kids kept alive" point, how would it lower the US live birth stats compared to Cuba and to Denmark? Shouldn't Cuba, from your POV, experience a higher percentage of infant mortality, per your question?
It doesn't though....could nutrition and access to medical care be reasons?
Which country has the screening technology to most likely "weed out" predicted defective fetuses, long before they are at the delivery stage, Cuba, or the US?
They're "free" in Mexico, and our presidents form fast friendships with Mexican presidents....here are Mexico's stats:
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Infant mortality rate:
total: 19.63 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 21.54 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 17.62 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.)
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Your last question, loquitur, amounts to an assertion of "better dead than red", and we have debated that in other threads....