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Nearly all developed nations enjoy a longer life expectancy and a lower infant-mortality rate than the U.S., and they offer their citizens universal medical insurance, either government-sponsored, run by private companies, or operated cooperatively by the public and private sectors.
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Nearly all developed nations enjoy a longer life expectancy and a lower infant-mortality rate than the U.S., and they offer their citizens universal medical insurance, either government-sponsored, run by private companies, or operated cooperatively by the public and private sectors.
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Of course, the obvious material advantages that come with being born white — lower infant-mortality rates and easier-to-acquire bank loans, for example — tend to undercut any sympathy that this sense of marginalization might generate.
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Nearly all developed nations enjoy a longer life expectancy and a lower infant-mortality rate than the U.S., and they offer their citizens universal medical insurance, either government-sponsored, run by private companies, or operated cooperatively by the public and private sectors.
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India's infant-mortality rate—50 deaths per 1,000 births—is worse than Brazil's and China's.
The Ailing Health of a Growing Nation Amol Sharma 2011
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The Swedish health economist Hans Rosling once gave students a list of five pairs of countries and asked which nation in each pair had the higher infant-mortality rate.
Studying the Biases of Bureaucrats Matt Ridley 2010
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This in a country that prior to the glorious revolution enjoyed a lower infant-mortality rate and more doctors and dentists per-capita than half of European countries, plus a larger middle class than Switzerland.
Just what Obama needs: Fidel Castro applauding the US health-care reform bill « Anglican Samizdat 2010
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This in a country that prior to the glorious revolution enjoyed a lower infant-mortality rate and more doctors and dentists per-capita than half of European countries, plus a larger middle class than Switzerland.
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Of course, the obvious material advantages that come with being born white — lower infant-mortality rates and easier-to-acquire bank loans, for example — tend to undercut any sympathy that this sense of marginalization might generate.
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Maternal and infant care is a large potential market in this country of 1.2 billion people with its infant-mortality rate of 55 children for every 1,000 born.
GE Remodels Businesses in India Megha Bahree 2011
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