Plus when you "shop around" you still need to select a doctor's office which is close enough to be within viable range once the moment of delivery is at hand.

Plus when you "shop around" you still need to select a doctor's office which is close enough to be within viable range once the moment of delivery is at hand. Even in the suburban areas I've lived in, for us that meant a "selection" of between 3-4 potential clinics, not exactly a very wide choice (and completely based on where I lived so it could very well have been that I would have been selecting from 4 of the worst clinics in the whole state).