In some ways they are lying. They did find a practice that would take them but the practice rotated physicians and the mom would be subject to whoever was working and not able to rely on one provider.
This is the essence of socialized medicine, sometimes you get Dr Wonderful and sometimes you get Dr Awful. So they found a midwife and used a healthcare cost sharing plan. Which got them to assume more risk for their baby’s birth, as well as the costs.
You can thank John Edwards for that - his lawsuits drove most docs out of the OB business.
Mrs WBill ran into this same thing, with Jr. She wanted a single doc to handle the whole thing. There weren't any. And at the time we lived in a fairly metropolitan area - so I'd have thought there should have been some choices. Nope.
Wound up at a Women's Hospital. Everything worked out just fine. But she wasn't happy about it, to start.