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Wisconsin makes push on free birth control

By Alliance Alert

Wall Street Journal: "Wisconsin is pushing to expand a controversial program that uses federal Medicaid funds to provide free birth-control pills, vasectomies and other forms of contraception to low-income people, an effort made possible by the federal health-care overhaul . . . Where funding previously was conditional and states had to reapply regularly, a provision in the health-care law allows states to make their plans permanent and get federal funding faster. Wisconsin applied in June to raise the qualifying limit to $32,490?a move that would expand the program's reach."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 19, 2010 (boomark / email).