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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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