The ATLA president talks about malpractice:

The only places where people have trouble finding an OBGYN to do any procedure are in rural, poverty-stricken areas, where the OBGYNs don’t want to live and practice. I do a lot of obstetrical negligence cases, and the cases seem to come out of poor areas. You see people getting better healthcare in big, urban centers, for the most part — although mistakes are made there, too — and that’s where the doctors want to live.

They want to live in nice places with good schools where they can raise their families, and they don’t want to live out in the country and they certainly don’t want to be the only OBGYN in some rural county, meaning they have to cover all of the deliveries all the time and never get a day off. It’s working conditions that make this difference; it’s not medical malpractice premiums.

(via This Makes Me Sick)