America has a birthing problem — let’s make maternal care more accessible  

USA TODAY - For more and to sign up click here Sean-Michael Pigeon, opinion contributor Why is it so expensive to give birth in America? In a word: supply. There’s a severe shortage of maternity wards across large swaths of the country. Today, more than one-third of U.S. counties lack a single hospital maternity unit or obstetric provider. Not coincidentally, America suffers a troublingly high maternal mortality…