Walker's budget removes insurance requirement to cover birth control

[Dappleganger]

This idiot has completely jumped the shark!


"Gov. Scott Walker wants to again give insurance companies discretion over whether they will cover contraception.
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.”

http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_a2f024ee-44d3-11e0-8dc8-001cc4c03286.html

[polichick]

1. I'll bet Viagra is still covered.

[MiniMe]

7. That was my first thought after the expletives

[Karia]

2. So the Pope is setting government policy in WI?

To say that birth control “increases the cost of health insurance for all payers” is absurd - pregnancy, childbirth, and health care for children are far more expensive.

[Ilsa]

3. Walker sure likes to screw over women, doesn't he? Teachers and Nurses and

professions held in majority by women. Women already tend to have more medical expenses earlier in their lives. He really likes sticking it to women, even if the corporations don't mind providing the coverage.

I really despise this man. I can't help but hope that he gets fucked over by someone.

[Karia]

4. Thank you Wisconsin 14!

Because of your courage, we have the opportunity to find out what is in Walker's budget BEFORE it gets passed.

[somone]

5. He's trying to re-engineer Wisconsin

Good thing people are finding out

[Bandit]

6. Aren't there people with moral objections to the taking of any medicines?

God will cure them.....