Premature Birth: Are Babies Born Prematurely on Purpose?

What I’m about to say, I have absolutely no proof of. I’m purely basing this on gut instinct and experience with human nature.

There are more babies born today premature than ever before and 12% of all births in the US are preemies. This is 1 out of every 8 births! This premature birth rate is astonishing and continuing to climb. Of course it can be said that because of technology, we now have the capacity and ability to keep babies alive longer even being born earlier in their cycle than ever before. Is it also possible, that someone has looked at the insurance plan of the parents to see if such occurrences are covered by their insurance, therefore it was done?

There are also more cesarean sections performed ever before. The logic has always been used that because of lawyers, baby doctors are forced to perform cesarean sections in order to rule out every possibility of being sued for any occurrence that may happen during the baby’s birth. Is it also not probable that because cesarean sections pay more through insurance plans, that it’s also another reason that they may be done more frequently?

I actually have some experience in this area because youngest son was born by cesarean section. He didn’t need to be. My 1st two children were twins and they absolutely had to be born by cesarean section. If not, all 3 of them would’ve died. My next two children were born through the normal process, but my 5th child, the doctor said that because of new medical recommendations and regulations, he needed to be born by cesarean section. We severely questioned these findings. He said that they have found that some children have had a problem being born normally if the mother had ever had a cesarean section before. It’s call a VBAC. We pointed out that we already had two other children who were born in the natural process, but it didn’t matter. He was forced to do it this way.

The fact of the matter is that in both of these cases, the doctors have a financial incentive to have a baby born prematurely or through cesarean section. I know that doctors take an oath to always keep the patient’s life and outcome as the highest priority. I know it may be offensive to some to suggest that any doctor would resort to such a tactic.

Most doctors I know are wonderful, caring, diligent and ethical people.

It is also true that the medical industry is in complete turmoil due to government intervention and now, with the passage of Obamacare, things look to become terrible for doctors down the road. The once luxurious lifestyle of doctors has been continually whittled away to something much less glamorous. When a doctor opened up their practice 10 or 15 years ago they had certain financial expectations that they thought they would reach by putting in the time and sacrifice to go through the education and required residency programs. Now things are not turning out the way they had planned. Financial pressures are greater upon doctors today than ever before.

Because of these 3 reasons: Financial Incentive, Legal Ramifications and Financial Pressures, I’m suggesting that someone needs to take a look at the realities of why babies are so often born so prematurely today. We need to get government out of healthcare and protect the doctors from legal hawks swooping in for the kill over the slightest problem. We also need to get back into a free-market medical system so the doctors can be paid what they’re worth and not have a free ride to every charge and expense. I don’t mind paying them for doing a job, but unless a free market is in play, charges can easily go through the roof.

Our current disastrous medical system in our country just got infinitely worse with the passage of Obamacare. It is essential that this law be repealed and replaced with something along the lines of free market medical care. Every time the government becomes involved in any kind of market, everything goes south. Government has a place in our country as outlined in the Constitution, but overseeing every decision the doctors make with patients, is not one of them.

While I believe the majority of doctors are profoundly good people and only want the best for their patients, they are in an extremely difficult position. In order to survive as a practice I believe that some have gone to the extent of reviewing patient insurance records to see if babies born premature, will be covered by their policy. We have reached a stage in our society where it seems that money is the only object, and this is only one out of a million examples going on today where ethics are set aside for profits or financial survival.