Kevin Stitt’s quest to make sure everyone hates him is going along well!
Earlier this week, the Oklahoma House and Senate overwhelmingly passed HB 1389 by a combined 129–9 margin.
A rare piece of bipartisan Oklahoma legislation that would help people of all income brackets get better access to life-saving healthcare, the bill required insurance companies to cover an expanded scope of mammograms and other breast cancer diagnostic procedures. So naturally, when it arrived on Stitt’s desk, he vetoed it:
Via KOKH:
House Bill 1389, a bill to expand the language used in the list of what a diagnostic examination for breast cancer may include, was vetoed by Governor Kevin Stitt.
The bill would add contrast-enhanced mammograms and molecular breast imaging to the diagnostic examination list.
Yikes.