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‘State of healthcare for women is in a fragile place’: Florida women are dying from preventable causes

New scorecard assesses health and reproductive care across US

A woman gets her routine yearly mammogram from at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Chicago. The 2024 Scorecard on Women's Health and Reproductive Care from The Commonwealth Fund says Florida women are dying from causes that are preventable, including breast cancer. (Chicago Tribune file)
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A woman gets her routine yearly mammogram from at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Chicago. The 2024 Scorecard on Women’s Health and Reproductive Care from The Commonwealth Fund says Florida women are dying from causes that are preventable, including breast cancer. (Chicago Tribune file)
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A new scorecard issued by The Commonwealth Fund assessed women's health and reproductive care in the United States over the last two years to measure the consequences of state policy choices and judicial decisions that limit women's access to health services and reproductive care. It concludes that "the state of healthcare for women is in a fragile place."

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