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Walker's budget removes insurance requirement to cover birth control
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Mar 03, 2011 12:24pm |
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| Category | Proposed Legislation |
| Author | JUDITH DAVIDOFF |
| News Date | Wednesday, March 2, 2011 02:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | His budget, released Tuesday, proposes the elimination of a recently passed law that requires insurance plans that cover prescription drugs to also include coverage for prescription birth control. Walker’s budget summary says the requirement is an “unacceptable government mandate on employers with moral objections to these services,” and that it “increases the cost of health insurance for all payers.”
Anti-abortion activists and the Catholic Diocese of Madison have opposed attempts to pass the mandate. But with support from public health and family planning groups, a Democratic-controlled Legislature in 2009 finally passed the measure.
The National Business Group on Health, an organization representing more than 160 large national and multi-national employers, which estimates that failing to provide contraception coverage actually costs employers 15 to 17 percent more than providing it. |
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