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As a health care administrator I would guess that money is somewhat involved, but not in as sinister a way as was suggested earlier. I suspect that many of these scares (I am going through one myself right now) result from our doctors informing us of every little risk no matter how remote because of the fear of malpractice suits. The ob/gyn specialty is one of the most heavily sued specialties in American medicine today.

I would also say to Jessica that even though you were not charged an out of pocket expense for your second ultrasound, whoever did the second ultrasound was certainly paid by somebody for doing it (your insurance in this case). If your insurance didn't pay for it, you would have been charged, or you probably woudn't have been able to get the ultrasound. This is one of the reasons low-income people have such a hard time getting quality care. Someone eventually has to pay for the services you receive. That is simply the nature of the health care industry.

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