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• A new poll finds that most Americans support protections for pre-existing conditions under the Affordable Care Act. They worry about losing coverage or rising costs without these safeguards in place.
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• People with pre-existing conditions gathered in Orlando to call on Rick Scott to support the Affordable Care Act. The state is one of twenty challenging the law’s constitutionality in court.
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• Florida Hospital is offering counseling and spiritual care to parents with very sick or premature babies.
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• The Florida Department of Health says 541 mothers died from complications of pregnancy and childbirth in the state over the past decade. They say hemorrhages were the leading cause. A lack of access to maternal care is to blame.
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• How one Florida county offers prenatal care to every pregnant woman, no matter what.
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• In rural north Central Florida, seven counties have recently gotten out of prenatal care, leaving an area the size of Puerto Rico without easy access to care.
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• The state wants Sarasota County to privatize its prenatal care in the next three years, and that has its southern neighbors worried.
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• The Florida Department of Health is getting out of prenatal care. Fewer than half of county health departments now offer care for pregnant women. So what does that mean if you’re pregnant and poor?
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• The rate of babies born addicted to opioids has gone up tenfold in Florida in the last two decades, much faster than the national average.
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• In some counties, women lacking private health insurance have little or no access to a doctor – and that got our economic analyst Hank Fishkind thinking.
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