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From: mark@tove.UUCP (Mark Weiser)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Midwife delivery and pre-natal care
Message-ID: <332@tove.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 00:47:40 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 16 00:47:40 1985
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Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD
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In article <1993@amdahl.UUCP> dwl10@amdahl.UUCP (Dave Lowrey) writes:
>Maryland Blue Cross refuses to certify Midwives, therfore, they
>can't get malpractice insurance in this state. Without insurance, the
>hospitals won't allow them to deliver there.

Well, I live in Maryland, and things can't be this simple.  Our baby
was born at home, using midwives, so that is one solution.  However,
we did have hospital backup and the hospital had worked with these midwives
before and there seemed to be no problem.  A third data point is that recently
Maryland Blue Cross started paying for home births, presumably using
midwives.
	-mark
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