A place where they do health care more cheaply and effectively. (And yes, it’s in the U.S.)
An Arm and a Leg
An Arm and a Leg
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🗓️ 31 July 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Goshen is a small city in Northern Indiana, about 30,000 people. |
| 0:04.3 | There's a daily newspaper in English, a weekly paper in Spanish, and dozens of freight trains |
| 0:09.6 | passing through town every day tying up traffic. And I'm not going to say I came |
| 0:14.3 | looking here for solutions to the crazy price of health care. I'm just going to say |
| 0:18.4 | I came looking for signs that there might be some hope. |
| 0:23.0 | Maple City Healthcare Center has been here for about 30 years. |
| 0:27.1 | It's a neighborhood clinic. |
| 0:28.5 | It's a poor neighborhood. |
| 0:30.1 | The people here are a mix of Latinos and whites, |
| 0:32.3 | although the two groups don't always mix. |
| 0:35.4 | A long time ago, Maple City adopted a new program for expectant moms. |
| 0:39.4 | It's a model developed on the East Coast. And instead of just one-on-one prenatal visits, |
| 0:44.4 | women get together in small groups that meet for a couple of hours. The first part, |
| 0:48.4 | they get their weight and blood pressure checked and stuff like an office visit. |
| 0:51.2 | And then they sit around for an hour and a half talking about their pregnancies with each other. |
| 0:55.0 | That's James Gingrich, Maple City's founder and medical director. |
| 0:59.0 | And the professional staff is not there as the experts. |
| 1:01.0 | They are there as really group facilitators |
| 1:03.0 | to help make sure that everybody's voice is heard |
| 1:05.0 | and that everybody participates. |
| 1:06.5 | It's a cool program, but there was a problem. |
| 1:09.0 | We didn't have enough Anglo women in these groups |
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