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TexasTowelie

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Mon Jun 10, 2019, 03:59 AM Jun 2019

No more Viagra: Rising costs might cost Cincinnati retirees coverage for impotence drugs [View all]

Cincinnati's cost cutting is about to get personal for retirees who use their city insurance for Viagra and other drugs that treat impotence.

City Manager Patrick Duhaney sent a memo to City Council last week outlining his plan to eliminate most coverage for erectile dysfunction medication, a move he said would save Cincinnati's retirement system about $425,000 a year.

Current city employees lost their Viagra and Cialis coverage last year in a similar money-saving measure.

In his memo, Duhaney said ending such coverage is necessary because of "the challenges of a constantly changing health care industry and the dynamics of persistent cost increases."

Read more: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2019/06/09/no-more-viagra-cincinnati-may-end-coverage-retirees-ed-pills/1381375001/

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