364 | Rebecca Grant: Why Birth, Motherhood, and Pregnancy Are at the Center of American Politics
The Realignment
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The Highest Stakes of Maternal Mortality
Maternal mortality rates in the US are 243% higher for black women than white women. Is this like a policy failure is this like a cultural failure? Rebecca: It's absolutely a policy issue, because there are so many ways that we could go about addressing it. One of them is insurance coverage and making sure people have ready access to preventative health care. There's also things around midwifery kind of state laws as we've talked about. And expanding Medicaid coverage for longer postpartum because a lot of maternal deaths are happening after delivery.
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