I do not work in a hospital, so I may not understand this correctly.  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!

Paula Hart
Charleston

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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