Motherhood—is any concept more American and more worthy of respect from our elected leaders? That doesn’t seem to matter to Robin Vos, the Speaker of the Assembly, who’s single-handedly blocking a bill to better protect new moms from health crises. We’ll talk to Dr. Kristin Lyerly and Emily Tseffos about this bill and another bipartisan proposal at the Capitol: providing better coverage for the kinds of diagnostic mammograms that are proven to save lives.

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