To Cut Claims Costs, Help Claimants Who Aren't Yet Born
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported the startling news that the U.S. infant mortality rate increased in 2002 for the first time since 1958. An increase in premature births was the leading cause.
Instead of revealing a weakness in the health care system, however, the CDC statistics suggest that as strange as it sounds, advances in medical technology and capabilities are behind the increase.
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