How can we fix something if we don't know what's causing the problem?

An interesting editorial has emerged from the Dallas morning newspaper on October 5th, 2016, this specifically targets families and especially women who are expecting...I imagine hearing this would make many future mothers uneasy, feeling unsafe and make women strive for answers and a solution until we are satisfied with the results.

  DMN (Dallas Morning News) is arguing that the department of state health services needs to release the medical data to find out why Texas women are dying after giving birth, claiming that it is unacceptable and there must be a solution. It provides the reader with some alarming statistics: "News reporters J. David McSwane and Terry Langford asked for the data under the Texas public information act and showed the results of Texas maternal mortality rate has shot up to 35.8 per 100,000 births from 18.6 in 2010 (statistics provided by Obstetrics and Gynecology, September 2016)  The numbers were even more startling for black women in a separate report commissioned by the state, found that they were twice as likely as white women to die within a year after their pregnancy... Department of state health services wants to keep this data secret in order to prevent fraud." Also, thought this was an interesting statement considering Texas governor Rick Perry denied Obamacare: "Both reports on maternal mortality noted the lack of affordable health care as a cause for concern, especially with Texas being home to more uninsured people than any other state."

 By golly, that is a ridiculously high increase with a very lame excuse.

  

I most definitely stand with Dallas Morning news on this one, we should be kept in the light as to what is causing this, why the state refuses to share this information with us, what kind of health care  women are receiving, what we can do to fix this… But mostly, what are they hiding?