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When we think about the health care crisis in this country, we tend to think about the troubling number of people who cannot afford health insurance, people -- who may have insurance or not -- who are at risk of or actually end up going bankrupt as a result of medical bills. But that's just one shameful issue affecting Americans in 2018.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, women in the US are more likely to die from childbirth or pregnancy-related causes than other women in the developed world. Research suggests that more than half of pregnancy- and childbirth-related deaths are preventable. And the risk of pregnancy-related deaths for black women is 3 to 4 times higher than those of white women.
This disturbing fact was at the center of a crucial conversation between MomsRising -- a grassroots organization working to increase family economic security and decrease discrimination against women and moms -- and a handful of US members of Congress on Monday, October 29.
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