maternal mortality

For decades, women in Florida who give birth and don’t have health insurance have been eligible for two months of Medicaid. Now, a group of lawmakers in the state House of Representatives from both parties stood together and said they want to extend the 60 days of Medicaid coverage after birth.

COMMENTARYAs a U.S. correspondent who covers Latin America and the Caribbean from South Florida, I chafe watching my country acquire traits of the…

In the U.S. more than 700 women die each year while pregnant or shortly after giving birth, and an alarming number of them are black. According to the…