Reply #25: Try looking at the

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Federal Employees health care coverage. Contraceptives were removed from the prescription plan 2 years ago. Viagra is still covered.

http://www.siue.edu/ALESTLE/library/SPRING2001/feb08/insurance.html
Only 33 percent of Illinois insurance policies cover birth control for women. With any luck that will change.

Bills proposed in the state House and Senate would require insurance companies to pay for women clients' contraceptives. Many of the companies that do not cover birth control do cover Viagra prescriptions for men.


My husband's Blue Cross/Blue Shield plan will pay for Viagra but not for contraception. (They dropped me 5 years ago when I got sick.)

A lot of people think this is an 'urban legend' but it's not. Neither is the fact that laws have been passed in several states allowing pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions for birth control...in effect, allowing the pharmacist's judgement to substitute for the doctor's.