Re: The front-page May 9 Maine Sunday Telegram article “Maine has glaring race disparity in care during pregnancies”:
Fifty years ago, I did my Bates thesis on essentially this subject, focusing on the high infant mortality of Blacks versus whites.
I posited that this was because of the high cost of health care, and the socioeconomic differences that existed then. Twenty-five years later, The New York Times ran a front-page article saying that a major study had found this to be true.
Now, another 25 years later, the same problem still exists. I wonder what the headlines will be in 25 more years – will we have eliminated health care inequalities, or will babies’ chances of survival still depend on the color of their skin?
Steve Mortimer
Raymond
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