Maternity care too expensive for more parents: personal contribution deters people with low incomes | Healthy

Requesting fewer hours of maternity care because families cannot pay their own contribution: maternity care organizations are seeing this more and more often. Less maternity care leads to more care needs and higher care costs in the first year of the baby’s life. Maternity care is in danger of becoming inaccessible to poorer families, or already is, warns trade association Bo Geboortezorg. “A consequence of the personal contribution to maternity care.”