Oregon covers the pill

Take your victories where you can find them: as of Jan. 1st, Oregon requires health insurance prescription plans to cover birth control pills. It's about time -- the Pill costs about $600/yr. The law is expected to cover 1.4M people. Plus:

The Legislature passed several significant health-related bills, including laws to expand chemotherapy treatment options, to require employers to accommodate mothers who want to breast feed their children at work, to extend the statute of limitations for people injured by Vioxx and Celebrex and to require insurance to cover alcohol and drug-related injuries and illness like other injuries and illnesses.