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...says that "first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes pushing a baby carriage," but that idea appears to be out of style. According to a new Census Bureau report, fewer and fewer single women who become pregnant with their first child get married before the baby is born...
Analysts say the increase in out-of-wedlock births results in part from greater social acceptance of single motherhood. But other studies cite more dismaying factors: a shortage of men who earn enough to support a family and the high divorce rate. Many unwed mothers, says the Census Bureau, have come to believe that "they may be better off in the long run by relying more on the support of their parents and relatives . . . than by entering a potentially unstable marriage." But there is another problem: almost half of female-headed households live in poverty, compared with...
...somehow none of these facts--nor the U.S. Census Bureau's determination that the marriage rate for women of that age group was actually rising--have received much attention in the media, which continues to cite and even to inflate the original statistics. As Eloise Salholz, the author of Newsweek's lead story on "the man shortage," said, "We all knew this was happening before that study came out. The study summarized impressions we already...
America has too many hospitals. On average, U.S. hospitals are operating at 64.5% capacity. To fill their beds, some hospitals buy physicians' practices and then pay the doctors under so-called census-based compensation, which is geared to the number of patients the physicians send to the mother ship and the number of procedures they perform. Some hospitals pay doctors in other ways -- through honorariums or appointments to hospital boards -- as a reward for referring patients...
SOLUTION: Remove the more blatant conflicts of interest governing the relationships between doctors and hospitals. Outlaw census-based compensation for doctors. Require physicians to disclose their financial relationships with the hospitals to their patients...