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Breast isn’t always best
Yesterday, the New York Times reported that while items like acne creams and denture adhesive are eligible for tax breaks under the new US health care law, breast pumps are not. Breast-feeding boosters like La Leche League are, naturally, up in arms, but the US Internal Revenue Service says that the pumps do not fall under the umbrella of preventative medicine, since breast milk is primarily nutrition.
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