Interesting article in today's New England 
Journal of Medicine about President Barack 
Obama's goal of expanding coverage of, improving 
care delivery, and constraining the growth of 
health care spending.  It predicts that if the 
reform affects the entire medical economy, it 
will represent a paradigm shift away from the 
incrementalism that has long dominated U.S. health policymaking.

The Struggle for Reform — Challenges and Hopes 
for Comprehensive Health Care Legislation
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/360/17/1693?query=TOC

Just wondering if any advocacy is being done to 
include more support for breastfeeding for the 
health and economic savings, ie as a savvy public 
health measure, which would include Code 
compliance, better training for all who have 
contact with mothers and babies, and - dare we 
hope? - to include coverage of lactation 
assistance/consultations in any proposed public healthcare coverage.

Pamela Morrison IBCLC (forseeing that such an an 
initiative could have a profoundly beneficial global impact)
Rustington, England

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