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The United States has the second worst newborn mortality rate in the developed world, despite the fact that it’s one of the most expensive maternity care systems. Dr. Marsden Wagner is the former director of Women and Children’s Health at the World Health Organization and he says the system is broken. Dr. Wagner joins host Bruce Gellerman to discuss his book “Born in the USA  ? How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First”.

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