At a very large hospital in my state, every maternity bed has a small television on a moveable arm hung over the bed. Only a few breastpumps are found on the entire unit. Which piece of equipment is paid by insurance? Yup - you guessed it. The hospital "room charge" includes the TVs, which have absolutely no medical need, and insurance covers the entire room charge. I say replace the TVs with breastpumps in every room, then at least the insurance coverage would be for something related to the health of the mother and baby! But then I do have radical ideas. BTW, this is the same hospital with racks of formula-company literature hanging along the corridors, and posters from the same company hung on the inside of the bathroom doors in patient rooms. Golly, I wonder who paid for the architectural services?? Linda Smith, BSE, FACCE, IBCLC LC in private Practice, Dayton OH