Administrations dedication to cost cutting by way of reducing use of anesthesia

Obama Care Sparks Second Wave of Ammo Shortages: Patients Told to Bite the Bullet

By Joy Tiz Friday,
August 21, 2009

“Every medical student learns an old adage: You can skimp on some medicine, but you can’t skimp on obstetrics or anesthesiology. An elderly surgeon explained it to me this way, ‘In surgery, people die in days and weeks—a doctor has time to fix a mistake. But in obstetrics and anesthesiology, they die in minutes and seconds.’â€