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On 24-Nov-2004, (Oci-One Kanubi) wrote:

1990 Healthcare Infant Deaths 2000 Life
Expenditures per 1K Live Expectancy
Nation Per Capita [1] Births [2] (years)[3]
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United States $2,566 6.75 77.1

There are several causes of that high infant mortality rate in the US.
One of the most significant is that fact that health care is only
available to those that can afford it. Since low-income women tend
to have higher birth rates than wealthy women, many births don't
come with adequate health care. Pre-natal care is especially lacking
and care in the first year is poor.

Mike