I care about this so much as there is many individuals who do not want to birth in the hospital but they cannot birth at home because they can’t afford it and husky won’t cover it. Everyone deserves the birth and prenatal care they want. If they’re not high risk there’s absolutely no reason this can’t be possible if it’s what they’re wanting the funding should be there! NOT TO MENTION IT WOULD LITERALLY SAVE THE STATE MONEY!!!!The average cost of hospital birth in CT is currently 17,072 dollars a homebirth cost me personally 5,000 dollars. In a recent systematic review and meta-analysis (can be found on the lancet.com a credible medical journal) between homebirth vs hospital birth of nearly 1,000,000 mothers and infants it was concluded that neonatal mortality or morbidity and maternal mortality is no different whether birth is attended at home or hospital. Actually the occurrence of interventions and maternal outcome in low risk people who begin labor intending to birth at home were far lower than the amount of interventions for those who intended to birth in a hospital in the first place. I recently gave birth at home and it saved my daughters life I’m sure of it. L and M advanced fetal and maternal medicine failed to realize that my daughter had velamentous cord insertion on a level two ultrasound twice! My labor was my longest one yet had I gone to the hospital I know they would have repeatedly asked me to break my waters (they literally try and coax you to it so you’ll hurry up I know because I’ve had two hospital births) I probably would have got annoyed with them pestering me and said yes having no idea of the cord insertion because they didn’t catch it! Premature rupture of my waters could have killed her in minutes even could have killed me. Pooled results for postpartum hemorrhage showed people intending to home birth were LESS LIKELY to hemorrhage than those who intended to birth in the hospital. They should adjust the coverage to cover homebirth of low risk individuals for many reasons 1. It’ll save the state money, 2. Science backs that there is really no increased risk in low risk mothers, 3. Studies show higher success in breastfeeding of those that birth at home and a lower risk of postpartum depression and anxiety, 4. Birth is not a medical emergency, 5. Why expose a healthy mother and infant to a hospital full of germs if that’s not where they want to be 6. Less medical interventions, many times people who get csections in ct it is often due to Pitocin complications or offering to induce a mother early (without medical reason) and not telling the mother of the risks to that, once you get a C-section here you are pretty much stuck getting csections forever afterwards because there is slim picking of VBAC providers but a midwife will do a hbac. (Again costs come into play here) and most importantly because it’s THEIR birth! If a low risk patient can have a 17 k birth funded to a filthy rich hospital why can’t a midwife have 5 k funded if that’s what the mother desires?! Everyone wins this way more mothers can get the birth they actually want, the state saves money, and it helps fuel small business. Let’s not forget midwife’s are also skilled professionals and they will know if a mother needs to transfer to the hospital and sometimes yes things do call for transfers but still there is less emergency interventions with a mother intending to birth at home than when someone births at the hospital to begin with. Midwives know infant resuscitation, they can have hemorrhaging meds on them, they can order ultrasounds/blood work, and they can perform the PKU test/administer vitamin k. Please sign and share if you agree. Here is the link to the studies if you’d like to read https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(19)30119-1/fulltext