Infant mortality: Can it be used to compare health systems?

May 23, 2007

David Catron looks deeper at this statistic frequently quoted in the media.



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{ 3 comments }

1 Elliott May 23, 2007 at 11:49 pm

Another hack cubed (Hogberg, Catron, Pho) post. These are getting to be a habit.

2 Tired of Mud Slingers May 24, 2007 at 8:31 am

Elliott – do you have anything constreuctive to add to the discussion? What, specifically, are your objection, criticisms, alternative theories, etc., to this post?

Or perhaps your reasons for reading and posting are not to engager in meaningful discussion, but to sling mud?

3 Anonymous May 26, 2007 at 11:12 am

Some mud of my own:

You have to remember that this is the guy who actually thinks that because he lives in New Hampshire he doesn’t pay taxes. He is probably doing the best of which he is capable.

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