Lawmakers are introducing bills that target racial disparities in maternal deaths by ruthumohnews
from January to April of this year, each addressing critical components of the persistent biases found in healthcare. “I often say, if we could put them together in an omnibus bill, we’d have a decent one,” says Monica McLemore, an assistant professor at University of California, San Francisco’s family health care nursing department.
Of the proposed bills sponsored by the 2020 presidential contenders, some are more promising than others. Senator Cory Booker’ssubstantially extends postpartum Medicaid coverage for new mothers from the standard 60 days after childbirth to a full year, increases access to primary health providers, and offers the use of services from midwives, doulas and holistic birth workers.
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