Francesca Hong: “Making those investments directly in black communities where…”

“Right. But I think that extending postpartum Medicaid to not just cover the first couple of months, but the full year after a person has a child, again Making those investments directly in black communities where there are programs that, you know, a lot of black people, they don't have any reason to trust, mostly white doctors. Right. And so it's especially with how staggering the numbers are for black infant mortality rate as well as the mortality rate for black.” (07:15–07:27)

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