When you're healthy, you don't think about hospitals or even your health care plan. The answer to intellectual debates about Health Care is that you are going to move to Vancouver and start a Celine Dion cult.

When you are having a baby, especially your first, you begin to care.

My wife and I took a Lamaze class at a hospital well outside out plan. The one rhymes with "pleaders pie in the eye" and the other was our HMO. Let me draw up a quick comparison of the two.

The facilities at "Pleaders pie" state of the art equipment. aroma therapy and massage personal trainers and gurus in room 5 CD and DVD player Epidural pill a mommy plastic surgery special outdoor tennis courts, sauna

the stalls at Gulag HMO steam-powered birthing devices warnings about teen pregnancy one surly nurse named Stan The slow whine of the dying Big cans of Generic Tylenol. an obgyn/GSW clinic for gangbangers. salty physical therapy dunk tank

Eternal Nesting...

A short time before labor begins, a woman sometimes begins nesting...
more...