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Comment by dlokshin

The irony is that if we were to have a single payer or other form of universal healthcare like they do in France, this little girl likely would have died. In France they use "Statistical prognostic" approach which in these sorts of cases withhold NICU services for infants with statistically low outcomes.

Edit: couldn't find data for premies at 25 weeks, but at 37 weeks and below, survival rate in the US is higher than European countries. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db23.htm

parent dlokshin 12 years ago

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