Dec 9 2009
USA Today reports that the health care bills moving through Congress have dozens of "lesser-known provisions" that include ideas that failed to gain traction in the past but are benefiting by hitching their proposal to health care reform. Among the ideas: "Companies with 50 or more employees would have to set aside 'reasonable' break times for nursing mothers and create a private space for breastfeeding." Additionally, midwives would be paid the same as doctors for their services under Medicare, and restaurants — even vending machines — with more than 20 locations would have to post nutritional information (Fritze, 12/9).
KHN related coverage, Seven Things You Didn't Know Were In The Senate Health Bill (Carey, Galewitz and McGinley, 11/30).
 This article was reprinted from khn.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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