Ossoff. We've gotten in the habit of treating it like it's normal or inevitable, where we have among the highest maternal mortality rates in the country in our state.
Right now, if you are born in the state of Georgia, your life expectancy is less than if you were born in Lebanon, which is a country that's been in a state of intermittent war for decades.
We've lost a huge number of hospitals across the state in the last 15 years because of the state's foolish and destructive decision not to expand Medicaid. And people are hurting.
People are dying of preventable and treatable illness in the richest country in the world, and I think we need to see this as an emergency that we have the power and the resources to address, rather than treating it as business as usual.