Christy Turlington Burns: Health Care Reform a Boon to Maternal Health (VIDEO)

President Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a boon to maternal health, says Christy Turlington Burns. Burns, a model, advocate and founder of Every Mother Counts, notes that maternal health and maternal mortality in the U.S. is a much bigger problem than most people think; Amnesty International ranks it 50th in terms of maternal health. Watch Burns talk about how health care reform is a “big step in the right direction,” but that we still have a long way to go to protect maternal health: 

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Christy Turlington Burns

About Christy Turlington Burns: Christy Turlington Burns has graced every magazine cover from Vogue to Time as a model, but is also a writer, entrepreneur, spokesperson, advocate, and filmmaker. As the daughter of a Central American mother, she has [...]
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  1. Basically maternal health is refers to the health of a woman during pregnancy and childbirth. Every country offers some beneficial facilities to the new mother under this maternal health care system. But in most of the occasion we have been found that health care systems are seems to be a boon to maternal health care. Under these health care systems new mothers are getting beneficial support and health care facilities. Every year we have witnessed a number of health care plans and policies are introduced to offer better health care facilities to the public and under these health care plans new mothers are also getting beneficial support for their maternal health.
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