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...condoms or other forms of birth control. The science, then, is clear. Abstinence-only education is useless at best and counterproductive at worst. What’s more, abstinence-only programs tend to spread misinformation and sexist stereotypes. According to a report prepared by the House Committee on Government Reform, abstinence-only curricula have claimed that HIV can be spread through tears, that abortion causes sterility, and that condoms fail to stop HIV transmission in 31 percent of cases. None of these claims, of course, is true. The report goes on to mention multiple instances of sexist content in abstinence...
Health-care reform is a subject that comes around in Washington as predictably - and at just about the same intervals - as the 17-year cicadas. Just as reliably, you can count on it to make a big stir and then vanish with hardly a trace. If there's any reason to hope that things might be different this time, it comes from looking at what is driving the conversation. In the early 1990s, the argument was all about covering the 37 million or so uninsured. In 2009, after much of the rhetoric on last year's campaign trail focused...
...means of enforcement, the White House was so eager to embrace the voluntary pledge of health-industry leaders to curb its costs by $2 trillion over the next 10 years. "This is a historic day, a watershed event in the long and elusive quest for health-care reform," President Obama declared. On Tuesday, Obama followed up that photo op by meeting with business executives who have been at the forefront of holding down the costs of their employees' medical coverage, and in the process making those workers healthier. "Now, if we can do that in individual companies, there...
...back in the hospital, for instance, that means more profit for the health-care industry. "They are often penalized if they provide more-efficient care, if they reduce readmission rates," Orszag says, adding that changing that kind of perverse incentive will be a major focus of health-care reform...
...While these are the obvious steps, it is hard to imagine them happening without the government leading the way with a comprehensive health-reform plan. Medicare and Medicaid programs are such large players in the health-care market that they can often force changes in the way the market works. But in the end, says Orszag, "everyone needs to hold hands and move together...