In what can only be described as a huge boner, Milwaukee teachers were preparing to go to Court to force the school board to provide Viagra and other drugs used to treat ED in the teachers’ health plans. This effort comes hard on the heels of the budget battle in Wisconsin.
(AP) With the district in a financial crisis and hundreds of its members facing layoffs, the Milwaukee teachers union is taking a peculiar stand: fighting to get its taxpayer-funded Viagra back.
The union has asked a judge to order the school board to again include Pfizer Inc.’s erectile dysfunction drug and similar pills in its health insurance plans.
The Union had argued that the cost of the drugs were small compared to the overall coverage. The school board maintained that cost was stiff, at about $786,000 per year.
News came down today that with interest petering out, the Milwaukee Teachers Union has abandoned its effort to get the taxpayer-funded drug and has no plans to erect another effort.
-DrJohn