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The union plan to repopulate Detroit: Viagra

August 24, 10:35 AM

Midland County Public Policy Examiner

Jarrett Skorup

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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 Detroit, don't we?" asked John Riehl, president of AFSCME Local 207, which represents water department employees.

Just one question: Is there any possible cuts that the unions will allow?

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