Why add 10 to 12% to the cost of a breast pump?  If you pay cash for a breast
pump you pay for the costs of manufacture, distribution and a profit.  Run
the payment through an insurance program and you add the cost of that
program's administration as well as interest for the time it take to process
the claim.  Who pays the increased cost?  You do.  The insurance that your
employer buys is part of the value of your labor (along with the so-called
employer's share of social security and Medicare).  When demand drives up
medical costs, those in control can either raise rates or ration care.  Seems
to me that it's in everyone's' interest to keep costs down as much as
possible.  The original concept of insurance was to cover extraordinary costs
that people couldn't budget for.

Buy the pump out of the money you save not buying formula.  It's the best
deal in the long run.

Alice Martino
(no initials after the name.  It the ideas are good, they don't need them; it
the ideas are bad, initials can't save them.)
in Central New York State

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