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What happened to US life expectancy?
The US has a higher rate of infant mortality because it has more premature births.
http://www.newsweek.com/us-leads-industrialized-world-premat...
rayiner
on Jan 7, 2014
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There's lot's of elements to the problem. For example, the infant morality rate for black Americans is double the rate for white Americans, and triple the OECD average:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6205a6.htm
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