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Giving Birth Under the ACA: Analyzing the Use of Law As a Tool to Improve Health Care
SSRN
2016
Abstract
Researchers and advocates concerned with childbirth in the U.S. have identified a crisis in the maternity care system. With nearly one-third of babies born by cesarean, a maternal mortality rate in the U.S. that ranks sixtieth in the world, and an infant mortality rate higher than those of twenty-six other countries, there are various economic, legal, political, and social factors contributing to the inadequate performance of the nation's maternity care delivery system. With 85% of women giving birth during their lives, the vast majority of people encounter the maternity care system and rely on maternity care providers to tend to the health of women and their babies. How maternity care is delivered matters tremendously, not only because childbirth is transformational, but also because the steep cost of having a baby makes high-quality maternity care an issue of financial security for American women and their families. This Article helps fill a gap in the scholarly discussion of the Affordable Care Act with a comprehensive analysis of how the Act impacts health care for childbearing women, looking not only to provisions that have expanded access to care but also to reforms and investments directed at long-term change. This analysis provides a springboard for considering further legal and structural reforms necessary to build a maternity care system that uses resources more efficiently and effectively
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Details
- Title
- Giving Birth Under the ACA
- Creators
- Elizabeth Kukura
- Publisher
- SSRN
- Number of pages
- 1 Online-Ressource (63 p)
- Resource Type
- Preprint
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Thomas R. Kline School of Law
- Identifiers
- 991021862271704721