Experts on animal husbandry would know they were dealing with a disaster long before problem births reached 10 percent and only a small percentage of these would require cesarean deliveries. Nor did these operations improve infant mortality rates. In 1990, the United States ranked twentieth from the top in infant mortalities, while Holland ranked sixth. Most births in Holland occur at home with the help of midwives and hospitals are used only if problems are foreseen. This much lower mortality rate with home delivery exposes the unnecessarily dangerous and expensive U.S. practice of handling most births as surgical procedures in hospitals.
Many cesarean births are due to doctors trying to avoid being sued.
It is the structure of law that permits only doctors to professionally treat illnesses from a cold to a fever. Quite simply, such illnesses can be treated by trained screening personnel or even the patients themselves. In medicine, the overcharge is enormous. Interestingly, corporations formed to help doctors decide what drugs to use. One can safely predict that these purchasing agents will channel the products of the parent drug company to their captive customers.