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Kamala Harris reintroducing bill to reduce maternal mortality rate among black women
Sen. Kamala Harris announced Wednesday that she is reintroducing a maternal mortality bill to take on the racial disparities associated with pregnancy-related deaths.
According to a Center for Disease Control study released earlier this month, approximately 700 women die from pregnancy-related complications in the U.S. each year. That same study says black women are 3.3 times more likely to die than white women from pregnancy-related causes.
Harris' Maternal CARE ACT would create two new grant programs to address racial health disparities. The first is a $25 million dollar program that would "support evidence-based implicit training" to combat racial bias within the medical profession. The bill also sets aside $125 million to "identify high-risk pregnancies" and "provide new mothers with the culturally competent care and resources they need."
"Black mothers across the country are facing a health crisis that is driven in part by implicit bias in our health care system. We must take action to address this issue, and we must do it with the sense of urgency it deserves," said Harris. "My Maternal CARE Act will establish implicit bias training throughout the medical profession and help ensure that womenespecially Black womenhave access to comprehensive, culturally competent care."
According to a Center for Disease Control study released earlier this month, approximately 700 women die from pregnancy-related complications in the U.S. each year. That same study says black women are 3.3 times more likely to die than white women from pregnancy-related causes.
Harris' Maternal CARE ACT would create two new grant programs to address racial health disparities. The first is a $25 million dollar program that would "support evidence-based implicit training" to combat racial bias within the medical profession. The bill also sets aside $125 million to "identify high-risk pregnancies" and "provide new mothers with the culturally competent care and resources they need."
"Black mothers across the country are facing a health crisis that is driven in part by implicit bias in our health care system. We must take action to address this issue, and we must do it with the sense of urgency it deserves," said Harris. "My Maternal CARE Act will establish implicit bias training throughout the medical profession and help ensure that womenespecially Black womenhave access to comprehensive, culturally competent care."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kamala-harris-reintroduces-bill-to-reduce-maternal-mortality-rate-among-black-women/
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Kamala Harris reintroducing bill to reduce maternal mortality rate among black women (Original Post)
DesertRat
May 2019
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(24,673 posts)1. K&R
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Turin_C3PO
(14,156 posts)2. K&R!
We have so many great candidates with so many great ideas. Compare them to all the clowns running in the Repub 2016 primary, its like night and day.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)3. Yes! We have immense talent on the Dem side
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden