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Sir Cliff, you're the host of the Impact Podcast. You're also Vox's premier health care reporter.

What is the second season of the impact all about?

The second season is about America's most interesting policy experiment.

So I've been a policy reporter for about a decade.

I think the biggest thing I've learned is Washington is super boring for policy.

Congress does not pass things.

But then you have all these states and cities that are doing wacky, cool, interesting stuff,

and it doesn't get nearly enough attention.

We're giving it some attention.

Let's give it some attention on today explained.

Let's share an episode of the impact with the people.

What policy should we focus on? What issue should we look at?

There's a huge problem in the United States with infant mortality.

How bad is it?

There's a study that came out about a year ago that like I just can't get out of my mind.

It found that babies born in the United States are 76% more likely to die than babies born in other rich countries.

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