Posted on Jul 25, 2022
States cracking down on abortion have high maternal mortality rates and gaps in rural care
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Millions of people are poised to lose access to abortion across Kentucky and parts of the Midwest pending court battles and elections. More pregnancies mean more need for prenatal care in a region already lacking.
People who are pregnant in rural areas generally have a harder time reaching a doctor. Dr. Anne Banfield saw this firsthand when she worked as an OB-GYN in rural West Virginia.
“We have a lot of mothers in our country who are suffering, because potentially in many cases, there are breakdowns in the prenatal care system,” Banfield said.
About half of all counties in the U.S. lacked a dedicated OB-GYN in 2019, according to data from the U.S. Health Resources & Services Administration analyzed by Louisville Public Media.
People who are pregnant in rural areas generally have a harder time reaching a doctor. Dr. Anne Banfield saw this firsthand when she worked as an OB-GYN in rural West Virginia.
“We have a lot of mothers in our country who are suffering, because potentially in many cases, there are breakdowns in the prenatal care system,” Banfield said.
About half of all counties in the U.S. lacked a dedicated OB-GYN in 2019, according to data from the U.S. Health Resources & Services Administration analyzed by Louisville Public Media.
States cracking down on abortion have high maternal mortality rates and gaps in rural care
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
So much for our nation being "First World" in medical care, while those states are stuck in the distant past.
So much for our nation being "First World" in medical care, while those states are stuck in the distant past.
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Cpl Vic Burk
SMSgt Anil Heendeniya I look for health care to become like it was in the 1800's. You will only be able to get it if you can afford it. In rural area it will be even worse.
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Cpl Vic Burk - Sad but true. Longer drives for routine care and emergency care success rate will drop. I can see the draw of living out in a forest somewhere, far from urban areas, but you'll have to take the bad with the good to do so.
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SMSgt Anil Heendeniya
Cpl Vic Burk
I was in Aerospace Medicine/search and rescue for 17 of my 20 years in uniform. Military personnel are indeed in better physical shape ON ENTERING SERVICE than our civililan counterparts, but depending on what we did, that condition is continually impacted by the immense physical activities we deal with in the course of our duties. Once we've left that occupation, we then have to deal with the physical and mental results of those impacts on our health and wellness.
I'm fortunate to have TriCare as a retiree, but I've found it to be inconsistent around the country--there are some TriCare catchment areas in the country whose patient population isn't as well-served as it could be.
That said, we retirees are in far better 'care groups' than those who aren't retirees, but who still have medical challenges that need attention. I tried to convince my kid brother to transfer to the reserves when he got out after six years in blue, but he demurred. He turned 61 two days ago, and gave me a laundry list of his physical complaints, along with his regrets about not transferring to the reserves after he pulled his "D" rings. In his case, hindsight is 20/20.
I was in Aerospace Medicine/search and rescue for 17 of my 20 years in uniform. Military personnel are indeed in better physical shape ON ENTERING SERVICE than our civililan counterparts, but depending on what we did, that condition is continually impacted by the immense physical activities we deal with in the course of our duties. Once we've left that occupation, we then have to deal with the physical and mental results of those impacts on our health and wellness.
I'm fortunate to have TriCare as a retiree, but I've found it to be inconsistent around the country--there are some TriCare catchment areas in the country whose patient population isn't as well-served as it could be.
That said, we retirees are in far better 'care groups' than those who aren't retirees, but who still have medical challenges that need attention. I tried to convince my kid brother to transfer to the reserves when he got out after six years in blue, but he demurred. He turned 61 two days ago, and gave me a laundry list of his physical complaints, along with his regrets about not transferring to the reserves after he pulled his "D" rings. In his case, hindsight is 20/20.
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