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Bing is trying to bring change. (Detroit News)
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing is clearly doing his best to clean up Detroit. Some of his newest reforms are to drop Viagra, weight loss drugs, fertility treatment and smoking cessation from drug coverage for all employees. He also wants to stop covering their kids' health care after age 22 rather than 25.
Seem simple enough? It never is.
The unions are fighting back, saying that preventive medicine saves lives (this claim is dubious at best) and, more interestingly, that Viagra is a necessity.
"We want to repopulate
, don't we?" asked John Riehl, president of AFSCME Local 207, which represents water department employees. Detroit
Just one question: Is there any possible cuts that the unions will allow?
Comments
Bing is running into the same wall that Archer ran into. He left office in disgust when he realized that he would not make any headway with the system that was/is in place. I predict that Mayor Bing will have the same success in reforming the culture in the City of Detroit.
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