Is health care pro-family?
Continuing the string of progressive policies with pro-family implications, the New York Times Health blog has an article on a study released in the journal Cancer documenting the divorce rate among straight couples when one spouse is diagnosed with a serious illness. According to the study, when the woman is the one diagnosed with serious illness, the marriage is seven times as likely to end in divorce as when it is the male who becomes ill.
In addition to reflecting poorly on the male gender, the study suggests that serious illness puts an often overwhelming strain on marriage. During the five year period of the study, some twenty-one percent of the couples in which the woman became ill were separated or divorced (compared with approximately twelve percent of the American population). Among these couples, divorce occurred on average six months after diagnosis, suggesting a connection between the illness and divorce. All of which leads me to wonder, whether improved health care (whether you believe this would come from health care reform or not) would benefit the family?
-Marc
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