FIX Rural Access to Maternal Healthcare - Pass HR 3421

I am your constituent and I just learned that 55% of rural hospitals have NO MATERNAL CARE SERVICES. The services have been removed because they are not a viable profit center. This forces women to drive farther and longer to get care and that increases the likelihood of complications and death for the pregnant person and the baby. None of us deserve that increased risk. If there were a team of medical professionals in each region of the country who could identify shortfalls in service and who had the resources available to fix those shortages, like maternal healthcare, we wouldn’t have to talk about that. Good news!! HR 3421, the greatly improved Medicare for All Act, has such an authority in place. I refer you to section 403 for regional authority, and section 611 for global budgets for hospitals and networks and to section 601 for a review of the overall budgets. Here is the text: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3421/text. I strongly urge you to get this Universal Healthcare bill, HR 3421, passed to give rural women the care they need and deserve. Thank you.