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Letter to the editor: We should work harder to close Maine’s pregnancy care gap Share 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?

New yorkUnited statesSteve mortimerNew york timesSunday telegramபுதியது யார்க்ஒன்றுபட்டது மாநிலங்களில்ஸ்டீவ் மோர்டிமர்புதியது யார்க் முறைஞாயிற்றுக்கிழமை தந்தி