Analysts, Maternal Health Advocates Want Dem Bills To Go Farther

Analysts say proposals from Democratic presidential candidates to tackle maternal mortality lack a comprehensive, interdisciplinary focus on reducing those rates, though they could help shape a discussion on the issue. Maternal health advocates say legislation needs to go further and have called for maternal mortality review committees and perinatal quality collaboratives to collect more data. Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Kamala Harris (D-CA), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Cory Booker (D-NJ) have all released proposals or introduced bills to...