The following is a legislative update from State Senator Amanda Ragan, representing Franklin, Butler and Cerro Gordo counties:
A big part of the problem is Iowa’s shrinking health care options and workforce:
· Iowa has seen 34 labor and delivery units close since 2000.
· Our state has the lowest number of obstetricians per capita in the country; 64% of rural Level 1 hospitals have no obstetrician on staff.
· Iowa has a high rate of cesarean births, as a result, which can lead to future health problems.
About 40% of births in Iowa are covered by Medicaid, but privatized Medicaid doesn’t cover the costs for delivering babies if health care providers follow the recommended standard of care, so hospitals lose money by providing labor and delivery services.
That’s why I’m signing on to the Healthy Moms and Babies Act (SF 2062), which will:
· Adjust Medicaid rates so that hospitals are adequately reimbursed for the care they provide.
· Ensure labor and delivery units use proven practices—known as “safety bundles”—that save lives during delivery.
· Expand home visiting services for pregnant women, new moms and babies.
Sorry’, Medicaid not Medicare.
40% of new births are women on Medicare? What’s wrong with this picture? Can they afford to raise a family?
As long as tax payers pay for them.
Great answer! So very true.
I can’t believe you guys think that improving the health of women and babies is a bad thing. No wonder your mama hates you.
How are you improving the health of a baby if you abort it?
That is not what this is about. Read it and stick to the topic.
Hmmmm, wonder who deleted my post?
They always do that when you say something they don’t like about Ragan.
How can you say anything good about her???
Studies have proven, the life of a child is better if it isn’t aborted.
What a stupid, retarded comment. How can you study the life of someone that had not been born? The lack of education and common sense of some of the people who post on here is unbelievable.
Damn, you really are that stupid.
* Just proves what a college degree, or multiple college degrees prove NOTHING!
*This just goes to show that anybody with an education does not necessarily mean they’re intelligent or have common sense.
“The lack of education and common sense of some of the people who post on here is unbelievable.”
Don’t put yourself down because you can’t understand when someone is being facetious. Some of you take longer to catch on to things.
I am glad you find abortion something to joke about. I guess I find it too serious a subject to find humor in.
Kill’em all go Trump!
Democrats always come up with ways to help people. They feel the best way to do that is to throw money into some new program(s). The only thing they don’t seem to have a grasp on is how to fund it. When will they realize that the govt. doesn’t have to fix every little thing, and that some things, no matter how much we dislike them, are just part of the economics of life.
Kind of like trump. Spend money and don’t worry about the debt.
That debt came from the Democrats in Congress and you know it