Posted on 01/31/2020 3:24:52 PM PST by spintreebob
This has been going on for years. Black women have free prenatal healthcare in South Georgia and don’t bother seeing a doctor until they are in labor. For years there were stories in the Albany Herald about the large number of premature babies due to the lack of prenatal care. The state and counties invested tons of money in programs. These women don’t care! That baby is a check and if it is disabled, then it is a bigger check.
Ask me how I know! My daughter was an office manager for a Rural Health Initiative. She would come home talking about these poor women with 10 children and how hard it was for them. Yes she was an idiot liberal at the time. My son is a nurse, he was a paramedic. He would pick them up in labor and do a medical history. Nope, no prenatal care. You cannot fix stupid! Maybe bribe it to get it to tie some tubes.
but now for the truth (even if mentioning SCD would be racist):
A woman with SCD is more likely to have problems during pregnancy that can affect her health and the health of the unborn baby than a woman without SCD. During pregnancy the disease can become more severe, and pain episodes can occur more often. A pregnant woman with SCD is at a higher risk of preterm labor, having a low birth weight baby or other complications. However, with early prenatal care and careful monitoring throughout pregnancy, a woman with SCD can have a healthy pregnancy.
https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/sicklecell/pregnancy.html
Women of any race or ethnicity who had a chronic health condition, such as asthma, diabetes, kidney disease or high blood pressure, before giving birth were at a higher risk of severe delivery-related complications. Black women who had two or more chronic health problems were nearly three times as likely as those with none to have a severe complication related to birth, the study found.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/life-threatening-birth-complications-more-common-minorities-study-finds-n918781
Years ago NYC had more black abortions than live births; the story died quickly because it was truly a success for the social engineers.
Impoverished black women in Georgia get free medical care, as do their babies. Perhaps some just don’t know how to play the insurance game.
i think you meant to say health services. /s
And?
Did you read spintreebob’s comments? Any response?
Is socioeconomic factors a synonym for what we call lifestyle choices. Most Hispanics are poor and fit the socioeconomic factors. Yet Hispanics in the US have the best health of any demographic group, better that whites, better than Asians, Better than Blacks and certainly better than Native Americans on those Democrat Reservations.
Mother’s choose to feed their babies, toddlers and teens excessive sugar. Those girls grow up < addicted > to sugar. They get early diabetes problems precisely for that reason. They get pregnant and have problem pregnancies.
Then there is alcohol, tobacco, drugs and other lifestyle choices.
There is also the choice of timing. Teens too young who choose to have babies have a higher incidence. Women who take the pill and have abortions and wait til they are too old to have babies and then have their first baby have a higher incidence.
Medical care, or lack of it is not the cause, except for cesaerian surgery which is a separate issue.
We are talking here about access to healthcare and Georgia being the worst. That is the quote.
You have no links just suppositions.
That’s nothing but an about page.
That ABOUT page has 5 choices to click. Click on Commentary and it leads you to the most recent comentaries. It also has a search box. Type MATERNAL DEATH into the SEARCH box. Hit Enter. The headline for 3 articles on maternal death appear. Click on each headline and you get the full story. The bottom of the page says there are 111 pages of such headlines, 2 or 3 stories per page. That means hundreds of stories on maternal death.
Some stories mention maternal death in comparison to other types of death. Some include infant death. Some stories focus on just one facet, such as drugs and maternal death, or older women and maternal death. I’ve read virtually every story in GHN for the past 5 years, plus almost every story in Kaiser Health News, which is the model for Georgia Health News, plus many other articles in Modern Halthcare, HealthcareIT and many other internet magazines and white papers.
Plus I see the largest relevant database in Georgia. Everyone on Medicaid, all state and local government employees, etc. (school cafeteria workers, bus drivers, crossing guards, teachers, highway workers, politicians, etc.)
That ABOUT page has 5 choices to click. Click on Commentary and it leads you to the most recent comentaries. It also has a search box. Type MATERNAL DEATH into the SEARCH box. Hit Enter. The headline for 3 articles on maternal death appear. Click on each headline and you get the full story. The bottom of the page says there are 111 pages of such headlines, 2 or 3 stories per page. That means hundreds of stories on maternal death.
Some stories mention maternal death in comparison to other types of death. Some include infant death. Some stories focus on just one facet, such as drugs and maternal death, or older women and maternal death. I’ve read virtually every story in GHN for the past 5 years, plus almost every story in Kaiser Health News, which is the model for Georgia Health News, plus many other articles in Modern Halthcare, HealthcareIT and many other internet magazines and white papers.
Plus I see the largest relevant database in Georgia. Everyone on Medicaid, all state and local government employees, etc. (school cafeteria workers, bus drivers, crossing guards, teachers, highway workers, politicians, etc.)
That ABOUT page has 5 choices to click. Click on Commentary and it leads you to the most recent comentaries. It also has a search box. Type MATERNAL DEATH into the SEARCH box. Hit Enter. The headline for 3 articles on maternal death appear. Click on each headline and you get the full story. The bottom of the page says there are 111 pages of such headlines, 2 or 3 stories per page. That means hundreds of stories on maternal death.
Some stories mention maternal death in comparison to other types of death. Some include infant death. Some stories focus on just one facet, such as drugs and maternal death, or older women and maternal death. I’ve read virtually every story in GHN for the past 5 years, plus almost every story in Kaiser Health News, which is the model for Georgia Health News, plus many other articles in Modern Halthcare, HealthcareIT and many other internet magazines and white papers.
Plus I see the largest relevant database in Georgia. Everyone on Medicaid, all state and local government employees, etc. (school cafeteria workers, bus drivers, crossing guards, teachers, highway workers, politicians, etc.)
I see you have nothing but suppositions.
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