Michelle Brandt
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February 11, 2011
Yippee! That may sound less-than-professional (and forgive me if it does), but that's the first word that came to mind when I heard the big news from the IRS today. In a reversal, the agency is now saying that breastfeeding supplies are eligible for reimbursement through flexible health spending accounts . As readers may remember, the IRS once ruled that breastfeeding lacked the "health benefits to quality as a form of medical care" - a notion that angered and confused medical professionals (link to .pdf), lawmakers , parenting organizations , and this writer . (Countless studies have shown...
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October 28, 2010
In my year-plus of writing for the Scope blog at Stanford's School of Medicine, and in my numerous years of covering medical and health issues before that, few things have enraged me as much as something I encountered in yesterday's New York Times . But David Kocieniewski, if you're reading, it's not you - it's what you reported on . It's that the Internal Revenue Service , in determining which products qualify for those tax-sheltered health care spending accounts , ruled that breastfeeding supplies don't qualify. And it's that - get this - the agency based its decision on its belief that...
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