Life-saving cancer drug blocked by GOP

Disgusting.  Republicans in Madison are using arcane legislative rules to block cancer patients from getting affordable treatment, all because of partisan pay-to-play politics. All but a few powerfully positioned state senators support a bill that would require health plans to cover chemotherapy treatment equally, regardless of whether it is administered in pill or IV form (SB 300).

However, Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau) is using manipulative rules to block a vote on this life-saving bill.  He is being heavily lobbied by insurance companies to oppose and stop the bill.  Sen. Scott Fitzgerald’s brother, Jeff Fitzgerald, is a lobbyist working for the insurance companies.  

The Senate is back in session tomorrow and has one last chance to pass this bill.  Click here to send an email to Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald asking him to bring SB 300 to the floor for a vote.  

Every Senate Democrat and thirteen Republicans support the bill which would ensure cancer patients have access to a more humane form of chemotherapy.  Three Republican senators oppose the bill -- Sen. Leah Vukmir (R-Wauwatosa), Sen. Paul Farrow (R-Pewaukee) and Sen. Scott Fitzgerald.  Two Republican senators have yet to state their position.  Why, when an overwhelming bipartisan majority of our elected state senators support getting cancer patients better access to humane treatment, is it being blocked?  That’s right, 28 senators want to put the bill on the floor and three are standing in the way, playing political money games while cancer patients suffer.  

Using technical rules to keep a popular and bipartisan bill from going to the floor for a vote is a misuse of parliamentary rules.  In this case, the use of procedural rules to block SB 300 defies common sense and basic human morality.

Twenty-nine states including Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota have passed similar legislation to require insurance companies to treat oral chemotherapy drugs the same as other forms of chemotherapy.  

Sen. Fitzgerald has the power to put the bill to the floor tomorrow for a full and fair vote. Click here to send an urgent email to Sen. Fitzgerald.

Comments

[Pat Allen]

Scott Fitzgerald ... remember the Dems got more votes than the Reps in 2012 so just because you are in power does not mean the majority of WI is with you. There is a lot of shock at the awful things that have been done since 2010. This is one more of them.

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