Author Topic: Bloomberg Wants Hospitals to Lock Up the Baby Formula (Read 7979 times)

Ben · « **on:** July 30, 2012, 09:40:13 AM »

This guy never quits. Apparently this won't be a city ordinance, but rather a "recommendation".

When are people in NYC finally going to realize that this guy is not much different than Hugo Chavez or Inka Dink in North Korea? If he was a leader in one of the less enlightened Third World countries, I shudder to think at what he would enforce and what the punishments would be. He really is a megalomaniac.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/29/nyc-mayor-wants-hospitals-to-lock-up-baby-formula-to-encourage-breast-feeding/?test=latestnews

TechMan · « **Reply #1 on:** July 30, 2012, 09:42:42 AM »

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/mayor_knows_breast_WqU1iYRQvwbEkDuvn0vb1H

Nanny City NYC is now pushing hospitals to lock up their baby formula, so more new mothers will breast-feed. It is a voluntary program that 27 of the 40 hospitals in NYC have signed on to. The participating hospitals have to give up the swag bags and related items for new moms and document a medical reason for every bottle that a newborn receives. Under the program, the hospitals will keep the formula in out-of-the-way secure storerooms or in locked boxes like those used to dispense and track medications. Formula will not be denied, but for each bottle a mom requests she will get a talking to explaining why she should breast feed.

TechMan · « **Reply #2 on:** July 30, 2012, 09:51:32 AM »

I posted the same thing but Ben beat me by 2 minutes, so the threads have been merged.

MrsSmith · « **Reply #3 on:** July 30, 2012, 10:23:38 AM »

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Under Latch On NYC, new mothers who want formula won’t be denied it, but hospitals will keep infant formula in out-of-the-way secure storerooms or in locked boxes like those used to dispense and track medications.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/29/nyc-mayor-wants-hospitals-to-lock-up-baby-formula-to-encourage-breast-feeding/?test=latestnews#ixzz227EkZ5J0

Hopefully this will prevent the rash of formula thefts by crazed moms we've heard so much about in the news lately.

roo_ster · « **Reply #4 on:** July 30, 2012, 10:30:43 AM »

Quote from: adively on July 30, 2012, 09:42:42 AM

document a medical reason for every bottle that a newborn receives.

"The baby was hungry, you twittering half-wit!"

longeyes · « **Reply #5 on:** July 30, 2012, 12:36:43 PM »

When do we see the Wet-Nurse Investment Act?

Ron · « **Reply #6 on:** July 30, 2012, 12:45:08 PM »

Think of how much money the state will save by rationing baby formula.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #7 on:** July 30, 2012, 01:03:22 PM »

Could you imagine going to a hospital outside of NYC? I bet they have children just dying in the hallways, without Bloomberg there to protect them.

We should just close down all those flyover hospitals.

SADShooter · « **Reply #8 on:** July 30, 2012, 02:35:21 PM »

Of course, now that we are steering newmommy toward breastfeeding, we have an entre into regulating her diet, to ensure the breastmilk is of adequate nutritional quality....

Nick1911 · « **Reply #9 on:** July 30, 2012, 02:44:27 PM »

Wait, what?

*sigh*

More coercion and propaganda to make sure that you pick the right choice, as determined by some committee somewhere. Like every anti-freedom act, I'm sure there is a interest group cheering it on.

HankB · « **Reply #10 on:** July 30, 2012, 03:19:33 PM »

Maybe it's something they're putting in the water there . . . I remember when Chuckie Schumer wanted to hold congressional hearings on the rising cost of corn flakes.

griz · « **Reply #11 on:** July 30, 2012, 05:46:10 PM »

Once Obamacare is implemented, mothers will WANT to breast feed babys. Besides being more healthy, it will save you money on your mandantory insurance. See, win-win. Plus we can take the money ~~from the evil rich~~ we save and fix the economy. Everybody will be happy

longeyes · « **Reply #12 on:** July 30, 2012, 05:56:18 PM »

Tell me they won't have to breastfeed until the "child" is 26.

Tallpine · « **Reply #13 on:** July 30, 2012, 08:12:21 PM »

Well, this is a switch from the 1980s when hospital staff actively sabotaged women who tried to breastfeed ...

TommyGunn · « **Reply #14 on:** July 31, 2012, 12:37:40 AM »

Quote from: Tallpine on July 30, 2012, 08:12:21 PM

Well, this is a switch from the 1980s when hospital staff actively sabotaged women who tried to breastfeed ...

How the **** did they do THAT??

stevelyn · « **Reply #15 on:** July 31, 2012, 04:23:31 AM »

So he's a doctor now?

Fly320s · « **Reply #16 on:** July 31, 2012, 06:36:39 AM »

Quote from: stevelyn on July 31, 2012, 04:23:31 AM

So he's a doctor now?

No! He is much more than that. He is all-knowing, (hopes to be) all-powerful, magnanimous, handsome, virile, and caring. None can compare to Him!!!

<SLAP>

Oh, thanks.

makattak · « **Reply #17 on:** July 31, 2012, 08:05:37 AM »

Quote from: stevelyn on July 31, 2012, 04:23:31 AM

So he's a doctor now?

No no no no no. He's not some money-grubbing capitalist who prefers to cut off someone's foot instead of give him some cheap antibiotics. He's BEYOND capitalism now. Higher. Better. He's a politician.

Tallpine · « **Reply #18 on:** July 31, 2012, 09:08:29 AM »

Quote from: TommyGunn on July 31, 2012, 12:37:40 AM

How the **** did they do THAT??

Feeding the baby from a bottle before letting mom have a chance to breastfeed

longeyes · « **Reply #19 on:** July 31, 2012, 01:00:01 PM »

Quote from: Fly320s on July 31, 2012, 06:36:39 AM

No! He is much more than that. He is all-knowing, (hopes to be) all-powerful, magnanimous, handsome, virile, and caring. None can compare to Him!!!

<SLAP>

Oh, thanks.

Little Jehovah?

Blakenzy · « **Reply #20 on:** July 31, 2012, 02:57:15 PM »

Bloomberg's philosophy is simple: "I own your ass"

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #21 on:** July 31, 2012, 03:12:16 PM »

War on women, anyone?

[stolen from Dana Loesch]

Balog · « **Reply #22 on:** July 31, 2012, 03:31:53 PM »

On the one hand, breastfeeding is far healthier for the baby, as even the formula companies themselves have to admit. And I agree that the fact that hospitals whore themselves out to the formula companies and frequently give advice that is against the medical interest of their patients to be shameful. I fully support hospitals being pressured by their patients and changing their ways in this regard.

On the other hand, it's is abso-f***ing-lutely not the .gov's place to get involved in that discussion. Bloomberg really is a wanna-be dictator, and all "for your own good."

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #23 on:** July 31, 2012, 03:42:41 PM »

Abortion yes! Formula no!

Ben · « **Reply #24 on:** July 31, 2012, 03:51:03 PM »

Quote from: Balog on July 31, 2012, 03:31:53 PM

On the other hand, it's is abso-f***ing-lutely not the .gov's place to get involved in that discussion. Bloomberg really is a wanna-be dictator, and all "for your own good."

Yup, no doubt that the natural stuff is most of the time the best stuff.

I find it more irritating when someone demands that we do something that I actually agree with them on versus when they try to force something on us that I don't give a damn about.

What's that quote about benevolent dictators being the worst kind?

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Author Topic: Bloomberg Wants Hospitals to Lock Up the Baby Formula (Read 7979 times)