Jul 29 2011
NPR's KQED on Wednesday examined how France's 60-year-old network of preventive health clinics for children and parents, which provides care free-of-charge, is being threatened by the nation's flailing economy. "[W]hile it's unlikely that France will abandon its maternal and child health programs, it remains an open question whether social changes and economic reality might intrude into such a sacred French ideal," the article states (Varney, 7/27).
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