Cheryl Senter for The New York Times
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
July 3, 2013
Medical doctors deliver more than 85 percent of American babies, and the overwhelming majority of births in the United States take place in hospital labor and delivery wards. But in many European countries, midwives attend to most pregnancies, often in clinics, resulting in maternity charges that are a fraction of those in the United States.
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