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Created: 2025-07-18 21:31:05 UTC

The Healthy Moms and Babies Act throws $10M+ at telehealth and "community-based prevention" while maternal mortality keeps climbing. Real solution? Cut the red tape strangling healthcare innovation. Birth centers face CON laws requiring hospitals to approve competitors - a rigged system that Grassley's bill ignores.

Iowa's maternal health clinics already burned through $10.3M in federal grants with zero freestanding birth centers to show for it. Want better outcomes? Deregulate midwifery, end certificate-of-need cartels, and let market forces lower costs.

More bureaucracy ≠ better care - it just lines consultants' pockets.

The numbers don’t lie—see how regulatory capture blocks real maternal health progress:


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