At AHCO, we believe that women should not be forced to make
decisions about their pregnancy based on the medical costs,
which for many families are simply unaffordable. Women who are
working to support their family with a modest salary CANNOT
qualify for Medicaid, and because of this they are at a
disadvantage in protecting their own health and the health of
their baby.
Companies are cutting back on benefits while healthcare costs
are becoming increasingly out of reach for middle class families
and small businesses. Most fair-minded people would agree that
it is bad public policy to create a subclass of “Moms in the
Middle” who because they work cannot benefit from
either government assistance or the luxury of corporate
maternity health insurance coverage.
Not surprisingly, many of these women conclude that their only
option is to walk into the emergency room when in labor and
forgo all pre-natal care.
• Every year nearly one million American women deliver babies
without receiving adequate medical attention.
• Babies born to mothers who received no prenatal care are three
times more likely to be born at low birth weight, and five times
more likely to die, than those whose mothers received prenatal
care
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