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Prevention First initiatives in the state budget!
Prevention first initiatives--Contraceptive Equity, Prescription Protection, and family planning programs--are included in the state budget. And we have a real chance of passing them!
Take Action! The State Assembly will be voting on the budget next week. Ask your Representative to pass the budget and the critical prevention first initiatives.
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Subject: Pass the budget and the prevention first initiatives
Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,
Birth control is basic health care. Over 90% of women use it at some point during their lifetime. The Contraceptive Equity and Prescription Protection initiatives will help end gender discrimination in insurance coverage and at the pharmacy counter.
Expanding the Family Planning Waiver will provide needed reproductive health care like cancer screenings, STI testing and treatment, and birth control counseling to thousands of low-income men and save the state an additional $585,300 over two years.
Please pass the state budget and the critical prevention first initiatives.
Sincerely,
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Campaign Launched:
June 04, 2009
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Contraceptive Equity:
~ Contraceptive Equity requires insurance plans that cover prescription drugs to also include coverage for prescription contraceptives. 27 states already have Contraceptive Equity laws.
~ Most women spend approximately 30 years trying to post-pone or avoid pregnancy. And 98% of women use at least one kind of contraceptive method during this time.
~ Because of the lack of coverage, women spend 68% more in out-of-pocket health care costs than men.
Prescription Protection:
~ Prescription Protection will help ensure that no woman is refused her birth control prescription at the pharmacy counter in Wisconsin again! All pharmacies would be required to have someone available to dispense safe, legal birth control prescriptions.
~ Birth control is basic health care used by over 90% of women at some point in their lives.
~ Yet, across the country and here in Wisconsin, pharmacists are refusing to fill birth control prescriptions at the pharmacy counter, putting their personal beliefs ahead of women's health.
Family Planning Waiver:
~ The expansion of the Family Planning Waiver includes providing family planning health care such as sexually transmitted infections testing and treatment for low-income men.
~ Publicly-funded family planning services provide critical health care to low-income women, men and teens, including cancer screenings, breast exams, STI testing and treatment, and access to birth control.
~ For each $1.00 spent on family planning services, $4.02 is saved by preventing unintended pregnancies and providing preventive health care. Since 2003 when the Family Planning Waiver was implemented, it has saved the state $487 million.
Learn more at www.ppawi.org/legislation
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