"So why does our infant mortality rate exceed that of, say, Canada,
where health care is free at the point of service? One reason is that we
have a lot more tiny newborns. But underweight babies don't fare worse
here than in Canada-quite the contrary.
The NBER paper points out that among the smallest infants, survival
rates are better on this side of the border. What that suggests is that
if we lived under the Canadian health care system, we would not have a
lower rate of infant mortality. We would have a higher one.
A lot of things could be done to keep babies from dying in this country.
But the health care "reform" being pushed in Washington is not one of
them."
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