The Profit Motive is Universal

The World Health Organization recommends that Caesarean sections account for 15% or less of births. Yet in China they account for 40%, in Mexico 39%, Brazil 36%, the U.S. 31%. Although C-sections are more costly and more dangerous, they can be done in minutes versus the possibly long labor of natural childbirth. Some doctors in Brazil perform sixteen C-sections a day. Why? For the money. You have to believe that accounts for the high number of these operations around the world.