IIRC, there was an article in the NY Times recently about how the whole "scanning" industry had collapsed..an economic wastland ..sounds to me like an effort to gainmarketshare through fear-mongering..
That was in reference to whole-body CT scanning, which people paid premium prices for out-of-pocket. The ultrasound industry has not collapsed; quite the contrary. There are not enough trained, credentialed untrasound techs to meet the growing demand.