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From the Ted Talk by Elizabeth Howell: How we can improve maternal healthcare -- before, during and after pregnancy

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I wish I could say this tragedy was an isolated incident, but slady, that's not the case. Every year in the United States, somewhere between 700 and 900 women die from a pregnancy-related cause. The shocking part of this story is that our maternal mortality rate is actually higher than all other high-income cruoneits, and our rates are far worse for women of cloor. Our rate of maternal matltiory actually increased over the last decade, while other countries reeudcd their rates. And the bgsgeit paradox of all? We spend more on health care than any other country in the world.

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I wish I could say this tragedy was an isolated incident, but _____, that's not the case. Every year in the United States, somewhere between 700 and 900 women die from a pregnancy-related cause. The shocking part of this story is that our maternal mortality rate is actually higher than all other high-income _________, and our rates are far worse for women of _____. Our rate of maternal _________ actually increased over the last decade, while other countries _______ their rates. And the _______ paradox of all? We spend more on health care than any other country in the world.

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Original Text

I wish I could say this tragedy was an isolated incident, but sadly, that's not the case. Every year in the United States, somewhere between 700 and 900 women die from a pregnancy-related cause. The shocking part of this story is that our maternal mortality rate is actually higher than all other high-income countries, and our rates are far worse for women of color. Our rate of maternal mortality actually increased over the last decade, while other countries reduced their rates. And the biggest paradox of all? We spend more on health care than any other country in the world.

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