Gene Green: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good morning and thank our witnesses for being here today.”

These numbers are troubling as we are because even more acute when you look at the existing racial, socioeconomic, and geographic disparities.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that more than 700 women in the United States die each year due to complications related to pregnancy and childbirth.

But the work started long before 2016 led by colleagues Fred Upton and Congresswoman Diane DeGette.

The 21st Century Cures Act was a landmark law and included important provisions to strengthen mental and substance use disorder care for women, children and adolescents.