LETTERS.

PositionLetter to the Editor

CANCER SCREENING IN MAINE

Editor:

There's a mistake in the Statestats report on insurance coverage for cancer screening in your October/November '99 issue of State Legislatures.

As the author of Maine's Prostate Cancer Screening Act, which passed in 1998, I can assure you that coverage for the tests used to screen for prostate cancer are mandated if recommended by a physician. You may now remove the asterisk.

Senator Joel Abromson

Maine

Editor's note: State Legislatures apologizes for this error. It is Oklahoma that does not mandate the...

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