Infrographic: The U. S. Maternal Health Care Crisis

Numbers You Need to Know

cabell:

This fucking country.

The C-section rate, btw, should be under 5%.  That would account for medically necessary C-sections, which are relatively rare.  Instead, it is 32.9%.

This poster doesn’t mention that women with private insurance are much more likely to receive a C-section than women on Medicaid, because the pay-out is so much higher, and also that the rate of “emergency C-sections” spikes at 5pm and on holidays.  And that people are routinely subjected to treatments like induction that dramatically raise the risk of C-section without being informed of the risks.

Argh.  Rage.

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