When I was vice president, I was focusing on the issue of maternal mortality. And when I started looking at the details of it, I realized that States had the ability to expand Medicaid coverage for postpartum care and that all of the states except three had not expanded it from two months to 12 months. And I then basically issued a challenge. And, you know, it was kind of, you know, shaming people like, hey, why aren't you doing it? (46:25–46:42)
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Asserts that most states had not expanded Medicaid postpartum care coverage from two months to 12 months.
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