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Here’s what could help save more black infants’ lives. But NC isn’t doing it.

February 11, 2020 News Article

News and Observer

Deaths of African-American babies declined most quickly in states that expanded Medicaid coverage, researchers have found. North Carolina isn’t one of those states.

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Joan Alker, executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University, said the conclusions about insurance improving infant health make sense. As it stands in North Carolina, low-income women who don’t normally qualify for Medicaid can use it if they become pregnant, to cover conditions related to their pregnancy. The coverage ends two months after they give birth, about enough time to schedule a postpartum visit.

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