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>> women over 40 two and a half times at risk of maternal death shortly after childbirth. the other high risk -- i won't call them high risk, the numbers are pretty small, i'll say at risk. african-american women experiencing death after childbirth because they're so prone to hypertension and if it's not treated, it leads to something called eclamsa, which is extremely high blood pressure and seizures. so, we want to make sure that women over 40, african-american women, and other women at risk get extra prenatal care control their blood pressure and the focus should be on obesity. because that...

Women have are also implicated in this. is that because of infection? >> infection is a risk and i'm going to talk about that. it may not be that the c-sections themselves are the cause because c-sections are increasing for a reason. women over 40, women with hypertension, women who are at risk have c-sections and the result is that it increases the risk of something like postsurgical infection. we've only got about 30 seconds. how to fix this, i know you brought along a kit that mothers can use. i hope women concerned about this will come to www.hospital infection.org. we have 15 steps you ca...

Actually lose money themselves, if they do fewer ct scans and c-sections, they lose money, and it can be sometimes hard to convince a hospital to make less money. >> good stuff, thank you. americans falling deeper in debt while fighting cancer. >> i think everybody need to be able to know, if i get sick, i can go to the hospital. if i have a house, i won't lose my home. >> isn't this pretty simple? so, a schoolteacher shares her personal battle to keep her home after a tough fight with colon cancer. you won't want to miss this story. come on, kiddo, let's go. [ laughs ] hold on a second... c...

>> no. >> reporter: so she saved everyone a little bit of money, huh? >> that's a good way to look at it, huh. >> oh, congrats. that's beautiful. so if it's so simple in terms of cost-cutting measures at a hospital, how come a bunch of hospitals aren't doing that? >> reporter: because you have to make a whole culture change. you have to tell obstetricians stop doing so many c-sections and obstetricians do so many c-sections for various reasons. different people have different accounts for those reasons but you have to get doctors to change the way they practice. you have to get hospitals to ch...

>> reporter: she was not born by c-section. >> nope. >> she saved everyone a little bit of money? >> that's a good way to look at it, huh? >> so elizabeth, is the chief quality officer there said, they are looking at that particular hospital for the best possible outcome at the lowest possible cause, seems like a common sense solution, why aren't more hospitals doing it? >> this is actually in some ways a relatively difficult thing to do, you have to changele culture of your doctors and patients, telling doctors and patients, we're not going to do as many c-sections as we used to. you have to ...