Gene Green: “We have people who are not poor enough to get Medicaid, but they also don't earn enough money to get the subsidies.”

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

Maternal mortality in our country has more than doubled between 1987 and 2014, from 7.2 to 18 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births.

Neither these bills nor the Committee's other efforts have gone far enough to address many of the underlying challenges facing this sector.

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.