WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen issued the following press release:
U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) are introducing the Mental Health and Making Access More Affordable (MAMA) Act to ensure more pregnant women (https://policycentermmh.org/maternal-mental-health-fact-sheet/) and new mothers of all backgrounds can afford mental health care and substance use disorder (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/overwhelmed-and-stressed-mothers-open-up-about-worrying-decline-in-mental-health) services by eliminating cost-sharing for treatment during and after pregnancy. Right now, one in five women in the U.S. suffer from a mental health disorder in the months before or after giving birth, the majority of whom neve...