<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Lareen Newman</b> <a href="mailto:Lareen.Newman@flinders.edu.au">Lareen.Newman@flinders.edu.au</a><br><br></span>
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<p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Well, the private sector in Australia in maternity care certainly doesn’t provide good value for anyone’s money considering the exceptionally high level of medical intervention that they use (up to 60% caesarean rates for first time mums in some private hospitals here) – which is certainly being questioned. It seems to be the same in Brazil I think.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">In South Australia they won’t even put their names to their statistics so that consumers could see what they might get (but consumer groups are looking into this). </span></font></p>
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