America has a maternal mortality crisis. Biden push aims to change that.
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As part of a major push by the Biden administration to address the nation’s maternal health crisis, senior officials have traveled the country for the past year, talking to midwives, doulas and people who have given birth about their experiences. They’ve held summits at the White House.
The result: an almost 70-page plan aimed at taking the United States from being the worst place to give birth among high-income nations — especially for Black, Native American and rural women — to “the best country in the world to have a baby.” But maternal health experts say it remains to be seen whether the federal initiative is enough to accomplish the administration’s goal.
As the only high-income nation that doesn’t guarantee access to provider home visits or paid parental leave in the postpartum period, the obstacles are formidable. The roots of the nation’s maternal health crisis lie in an accumulation of life events that start long before pregnancy begins and that are centuries in the making. Experts and the administration acknowledge that addressing maternal mortality means understanding the effects imposed on expectant mothers by racism, housing policy, policing, climate change and pollution.
Experts say the blueprint, which includes extending Medicaid coverage to a full year postpartum and requiring hospitals to document whether they’re improving maternal care, is a step on the way toward more sweeping societal changes needed to cut rates of maternal mortality and morbidity and reduce persistent racial disparities.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/08/08/maternal-mortality-biden/
A mark of shame for the "world's greatest healthcare system" and we definitely have a crisis on our hands.
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