Comments on: Wasting Health Care Dollars http://www.healthinsurancecolorado.net/blog1/2006/11/22/wasting-colorado-health-care-dollars/ Research and discussion of the Colorado health insurance industry and the healthcare crisis in America. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:19:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Colorado Health Insurance Insider » C-Sections, Maternal Death, and Health Insurance http://www.healthinsurancecolorado.net/blog1/2006/11/22/wasting-colorado-health-care-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-7591 Colorado Health Insurance Insider » C-Sections, Maternal Death, and Health Insurance Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:04:46 +0000 http://insuranceshoppers.net/blog1/2006/11/22/wasting-colorado-health-care-dollars/#comment-7591 [...] Colorado Health Insurance Insider, we’ve made our position on c-section very clear.  We believe that it is a powerful medical tool that can save the lives of mothers and [...] [...] Colorado Health Insurance Insider, we’ve made our position on c-section very clear.  We believe that it is a powerful medical tool that can save the lives of mothers and [...]

]]> By: Louise Norris http://www.healthinsurancecolorado.net/blog1/2006/11/22/wasting-colorado-health-care-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-290 Louise Norris Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:45:45 +0000 http://insuranceshoppers.net/blog1/2006/11/22/wasting-colorado-health-care-dollars/#comment-290 Oops, thanks for noticing the typo - those were 2005 numbers. It's sad that the OB/GYN world feels threatened by midwives and is pushing to eliminate the choices a woman has during childbirth. I suppose it's easier and more timely for them to do c-sections as a routine practice. We plan to have our children at home, and I'd have to be in a pretty dire situation in order to want to give birth in a hospital. Thank you for choosing to be a home birth midwife and providing an alternative for all of us who would rather not be cut and poked and prodded during the birth of our children. Oops, thanks for noticing the typo – those were 2005 numbers. It’s sad that the OB/GYN world feels threatened by midwives and is pushing to eliminate the choices a woman has during childbirth. I suppose it’s easier and more timely for them to do c-sections as a routine practice. We plan to have our children at home, and I’d have to be in a pretty dire situation in order to want to give birth in a hospital. Thank you for choosing to be a home birth midwife and providing an alternative for all of us who would rather not be cut and poked and prodded during the birth of our children.

]]> By: Kris Bagiu, CPM http://www.healthinsurancecolorado.net/blog1/2006/11/22/wasting-colorado-health-care-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-281 Kris Bagiu, CPM Sun, 10 Dec 2006 05:54:45 +0000 http://insuranceshoppers.net/blog1/2006/11/22/wasting-colorado-health-care-dollars/#comment-281 Hi there, I found you via Grand Rounds. I am a Registered Midwife in Colorado and deliver low-risk women at home. I think you may have a typo there on the Cesarean rate for the US since 2006 isn't quite over yet; those are 2005 numbers. Appalling! It's pretty standard in the hospitals of Colorado that birth is highly interventive and procedure oriented. The Registered Midwives have excellent statistics for our small population of patients served, which include vaginal births after cesarean (VBAC). Apparently we're impressive enough to have caught the eye of the Board of Medical Examiners who've inspired this surgical mess and would like to see to it they limit the choice of women to give birth at home in later pregnancies following their cesareans. The information can be found here: http://www.dora.state.co.us/midwives/rulemaking.htm The rules are inspired by the director of registrations to appease the BME and further protect our clients, however the BME is using this opportunity to use their lobbying muscle to abolish the practice entirely. I don't see anyone asking them to clean up their acts and protect women! Hi there, I found you via Grand Rounds. I am a Registered Midwife in Colorado and deliver low-risk women at home. I think you may have a typo there on the Cesarean rate for the US since 2006 isn’t quite over yet; those are 2005 numbers. Appalling! It’s pretty standard in the hospitals of Colorado that birth is highly interventive and procedure oriented. The Registered Midwives have excellent statistics for our small population of patients served, which include vaginal births after cesarean (VBAC). Apparently we’re impressive enough to have caught the eye of the Board of Medical Examiners who’ve inspired this surgical mess and would like to see to it they limit the choice of women to give birth at home in later pregnancies following their cesareans. The information can be found here: http://www.dora.state.co.us/midwives/rulemaking.htm

The rules are inspired by the director of registrations to appease the BME and further protect our clients, however the BME is using this opportunity to use their lobbying muscle to abolish the practice entirely. I don’t see anyone asking them to clean up their acts and protect women!

]]> By: Calli Arcale http://www.healthinsurancecolorado.net/blog1/2006/11/22/wasting-colorado-health-care-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-265 Calli Arcale Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:53:51 +0000 http://insuranceshoppers.net/blog1/2006/11/22/wasting-colorado-health-care-dollars/#comment-265 A c-section because she didn't deliver in *three hours*???? That's positively absurd! (Even ignoring the sheer arrogance required to prepare for it without even mentioning it to the patient first -- much less obtaining the legally neccesary informed consent. Makes me wonder just how far they were prepared to go in utterly disregarding her existence as a sentient being.) Three hours.... That might be a long time for a Hmong lady (they have a curious reputation for delivering startlingly fast -- sometimes after only minutes of active labor) but I don't think that's all that unusual. Absurd.... No wonder the c-section rate is skyrocketing. A c-section because she didn’t deliver in *three hours*???? That’s positively absurd! (Even ignoring the sheer arrogance required to prepare for it without even mentioning it to the patient first — much less obtaining the legally neccesary informed consent. Makes me wonder just how far they were prepared to go in utterly disregarding her existence as a sentient being.)

Three hours…. That might be a long time for a Hmong lady (they have a curious reputation for delivering startlingly fast — sometimes after only minutes of active labor) but I don’t think that’s all that unusual. Absurd…. No wonder the c-section rate is skyrocketing.

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