Baby Steps: Saving Some Change $$ In Making Some Changes

With
all the recent talk about change and health care reform, this seems to
me like a good time to talk about pregnancy reform, and the health care
system. Health care costs are skyrocketing, this we know for sure. So
let’s break it down and see if we as a group of smart women can come to
some conclusions and maybe some possible solutions to do our part in
maybe saving the health care industry, the insurance companies, and the
nation some very valuable health care dollars.

Let’s look at ultrasound. When I was pregnant twenty-four
years ago, I was sent for one ultrasound. I have no idea why I needed
an ultrasound, I never questioned going for the ultrasound and no one
ever mentioned any possible risk involved with having an ultrasound.
Actually I believe the reason for the ultrasound was to confirm the
fact that I was pregnant. I needed an ultrasound for that? I woke up
one morning to find my boobs three cup sizes bigger then when I went to
bed the night before, of course I was pregnant! (and P.S. my pregnancy
boobs were fabulous!) And wouldn’t a blood test show the same result
and what ever happened to the rabbit test?? Oh wait! never mind, I just
remembered PETA.

In 1993 U.S.A. Today ran an editorial stating: