Joseph P. Kennedy III: “Would adding doula services as a covered benefit under Medicaid... reduce rates of preventable maternal deaths or…”

This is, in all likelihood, my last committee hearing as well. It has been an extraordinary honor and pleasure and privilege for me to join all of you on the best committee in Congress.

We've really got to take a proactive approach here.

And, Doctor, you touched on this already a little bit, but just to flesh this out for us a bit more, how does Medicaid expansion specifically help States to respond to the current unprecedented health and economic crisis?

And this is very much a life-or-death situation for the millions of people with chronic health conditions...