Friday, July 28, 2017
The Century Foundation on How Healthcare Repeal Would be a Disaster for Women’s Health
The Century Foundation has estimated that 13 million women would lose maternal care protection with out the ACA.
Considering the United States’ shockingly high rate of maternal mortality, the essential protections afforded by the ACA have been lengthy overdue. Yet even because the ACA sought to increase women’s healthcare, some states discovered loopholes. Republican-controlled Texas, for instance, managed to shut women’s health clinics and prohibit entry to abortions and contraception — whilst deaths from complications of pregnancy and childbirth doubled; the state now has the very best maternal mortality fee within the developed world...