Brockporter Health Care Sunday - Health insurance now provides Brockporters breast pumps

The Affordable Care Act — aka Obamacare — requires health insurers to pay for breast pumps. For many insurance plans, the new rule kicked in at the start of this year.

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Editor's note: Angela and I had 9 children. When Kelly was born 05/09/69 at Lakeside Hospital Angela, a mother ahead of her time, wanted to breast feed and was actively discouraged by Dr. Sansocie and the nursing staff from doing so.

In 1972 when Angela was pregnant with Colleen we switched our obstetrical care to Dr. George Walsh and The Genesee Hospital where fathers were allowed in the delivery room and they actively encouraged breast feeding. Angela and other mothers that year started the first breast feeding mother's group in Brockport, NY.

Of course when  a child is born in a city hospital they get referred to a city Pediatrician and so even though we lived in Brockport we have always gotten our health care in Rochester eschewing Lakeside because of the bad experience with their maternity and pediatric care.

 How times have changed as now breast feeding is recognized and acknowledged as superior in most cases to formula feeding. Remember when mothers would leave the hospital with their complimentary gift of formula and bottles foisted on them by formula corporations. It may seem a stretch, but the seeds of the death of Lakeside may be traced back to the formula corporations who captured Lakesides maternity and pediatric patients with what now are recognized as non-optimal care and practices, and patients who wanted better care for themselves and their children sought out that care from more progressive health care providers and institutions.