The Cost of Childbirth in the US

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Rebecca Grant, author of Birth: Three Mothers, Nine Months, and Pregnancy in America, joins The Realignment. Rebecca and Marshall discuss her time profiling mothers in Portland, Oregon from pregnancy to birth, America's high maternal mortality rate, why hospital-based births have gotten so expensive compared to other industrialized countries, and alternative approaches to birth and pregnancy outside the hospital system.