The U.S. is currently experiencing a health crisis that rarely makes it into mainstream headlines: the shuttering of obstetric units in (mostly) rural hospitals across the country.
during the pandemic and has only continued to accelerate since. Black and brown women who already faced care shortages, coverage gaps and discrimination in healthcare are shouldering the greatest danger and weight of these changes.
These trends are contributing to a worsening maternal health landscape for Black and Indigenous women in this country. Even before the pandemic, the United States had the highest maternal mortality rate among its peer countries. It is not a coincidence that the maternal mortality rate hasI can’t imagine many things more core to the well-being of our economy and our communities than the health of women, of mothers and the children they bring into this world.
But what if we thought about maternity care like we thought about extractive, under-regulated, poorly run banks? We have plenty of examples of the federal government quickly mobilizing resources to bail them out.
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