I see your logic. Formula is currently billed as you say. My point is maybe 
it shouldn't be. I'm seeing formula as medicine not food. A hospital may be 
reluctant to give up their status quo. They get formula very cheap in return 
for us using so much. If they went baby friendly the price the hospital pays 
for the formula would go up. A hospital is not in the business to lose 
money. My way saves the hospital money and encourages breastfeeding. A 
hospital wouldn't mind you bringing in your own food if you ate a special 
food. I wish formula could be seen as an unusual occurance in the hospital 
setting.
Make sense?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paula M. R. Hart" <[log in to unmask]>

 When
> I am a patient in the hospital, the cost of my food is included in my room 
> fee.  I have never been charged for my meal, nor have I been asked to 
> bring food from home (actually, I suspect the nurses would prefer that I 
> not bring food from home).  I don't think my insurance is billed more or 
> less if I eat their food or not.  Why would another patient be treated 
> different from me just because that person is much younger?  I am all for 
> breastfeeding, but I think that it does not make sense to treat different 
> patients differently as far as costs go.  Is there something I don't get? 
> It wouldn't be the first time!
> At 02:11 PM 12/17/04 -0500, you wrote:
>>Why would the hospital have to pay? Insurance should cover medically 
>>necessary formula and parents would have to pay for or bring their own 
>>formula for not medically warranted.
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Phyllis Adamson" 
>><[log in to unmask]>
>>
>>>  but when they found
>>>>out how much formula would cost the hospital when they had to buy it
>>>>themselves they opted out of that idea.
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