1. Hospitals are institutions that have a higher duty of care for us than the grocery store does. Like doctors, they are "protectors" of our welfare in a way other businesses are not. So, imo, what hospitals do carries a weight to them that is not carried by a TV advertisement. There is a higher standard of care here.
2."If you can ban the distribution of formula" No one is talking about banning the distribution- simply the distribution by hospitals, and if you take my point #1, then you would see why it makes a difference who "distributes" the formula- and it's distributed for free by hospitals for a reason, not out of benevolence. Companies hope to trap young mothers in to using formual- and if they can use the authority of the hospitals as part of their business model, they will do it. Since we, the public, pay for these hospitals, should they really be used for purposes against the advice of pediatricians, and the federal government, and to the detriment of infants? I'm not sure why a quasi governmental institution (or in the case of public hospitals, a purely governmental entity) should be working against our national health interests- as stated by state and federal governments.
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Those are points significantly wider than a hair- but of course, you can use that rhetorical device if you like. |
