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If you were going to put a value on an infant's life for purposes of, say, settling a lawsuit, $10 million wouldn't be unreasonable. Think of that infant's earnings over their entire life, plus the loss to the parents. So the program would only need to save one or a handful of infant lives a year to be worth the cost, at least from an actuarial perspective. Eliminating the program is incredibly wasteful.


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