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Title: State stops paying for Viagra, sex changes. Religious stuff still ok
Post by: Susan on September 01, 2005, 02:18:41 PM
Post by: Susan on September 01, 2005, 02:18:41 PM
State stops paying for Viagra, sex changes. Religious stuff still ok (http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/5590176.html)
Maura Lerner, Star Tribune
September 1, 2005
The state of Minnesota is quietly getting out of the business of paying for three controversial treatments that affect the sex lives or sex organs of low-income patients.
Starting today, the state will no longer cover routine circumcisions, unless "required by religious practice," under its insurance plans for 670,000 low-income Minnesotans, according to the Department of Human Services.
It's also dropping coverage of Viagra and other impotence drugs.
And last month, it completely stopped paying for sex-change operations.... [Read More] (http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/5590176.html)
Maura Lerner, Star Tribune
September 1, 2005
The state of Minnesota is quietly getting out of the business of paying for three controversial treatments that affect the sex lives or sex organs of low-income patients.
Starting today, the state will no longer cover routine circumcisions, unless "required by religious practice," under its insurance plans for 670,000 low-income Minnesotans, according to the Department of Human Services.
It's also dropping coverage of Viagra and other impotence drugs.
And last month, it completely stopped paying for sex-change operations.... [Read More] (http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/5590176.html)
Title: Re: State stops paying for Viagra, sex changes. Religious stuff still ok
Post by: Susan on September 01, 2005, 02:26:00 PM
Post by: Susan on September 01, 2005, 02:26:00 PM
Of course the bills sponser was a Republican.
Title: Re: State stops paying for Viagra, sex changes. Religious stuff still ok
Post by: Leigh on September 02, 2005, 11:10:41 PM
Post by: Leigh on September 02, 2005, 11:10:41 PM
What chaps my cheeks is when an insurance company will pay for viagra but not BC pills >:(