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  “The issue of providing adequate preventive care for pregnant women in the U.S. is neither medical nor financial. It is political. The means are available to do a better job. Many countries with fewer resources than the U.S. are doing it.

—C. Arden Miller, M.D., professor and chairman, Department of Maternal and Child Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from his testimony presented before the Committee on Children, Youth and Families, U.S. Congress, April 28, 1987.

Christine
social worker, Singapore
In Singapore, because we are a family-oriented society, if you are pregnant, you are the big one and everybody tries their best to take care of you. If you don’t have any family or friends or you are very poor, the government will provide care, charge you only a little amount of money.

I was so surprised to hear you have many problems here in the United States.

Last night, I saw an ad on TV. A woman is not feeling well, concerned about an injury she has. Instead of saying call this doctor someone is saying call this lawyer.

I don’t really understand this concept of malpractice medicine.

Maybe one solution would be to do away with these legal practices and that would stop the problems. I don’t understand why doctors are worried about malpractice if they are doing the right thing, trying to help the patient.

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