>In Dr. Don Baker's vision, a low-income woman sits at a computer screen in a
>medical clinic. She listens to automated advice about managing her high-risk
>pregnancy while a monitor on her abdomen records her baby's heartbeat.

>If she also listens to promotions for infant formula or blood pressure
>drugs, she can get a discount on her visit to the doctor that day, offset by
>the advertising revenue.

Does anyone else find this as distressing as I do? Let me see if I have
this
straight:
Health care in the US is paid for and provided privately, so not everyone
can
afford it. In order to help the poor pay for health care, (or society pay
for
the health care of the poor, but we won't go there in this post) we let
big companies
foot part of the bill in exchange for these women listening to ads while
they
are hooked up to glorified doplers.

Where is the OUTRAGE?! Where is the ethics in this??

Naomi Bar-Yam

(I won't even get into the problem of having women sitting hooked up to
machines and automated advice to deal with a high risk pregnancy with no
other
caring human in sight. That's a different outrage all together and
probably doesn't
belong on lactnet.)

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