Stephan:   I have just edited the galleys of a paper I am publishing in a week or so, "Why Doesn't America Like Its Children?" It covers in greater length and more details, exactly the sort of thing covered in today's lead article, whose publication I find very interesting because it tells me I'm not the only person looking at this outcome data in horror. Compared the rest of the world's developed nations having in a child in the U.S. is a dangerous business for both mother and baby. And the cost... The cost of delivering a child in the U.S. can be 10 times what it is Europe, and it results in 10s of thousands of families going bankrupt.  Here is a taste of the data, I will post my longer paper as soon as it is out. What it all tells us once again is that we do not have a healthcare system in America we have an illness profit system, and we tolerate it year after year like submissive serfs.