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The letter doesn't explain the situation further, including this question: How does a health plan determine the fair number of times an ED sufferer gets to make whoopie?

Under the old guidelines, a Cat member could get all the ED tablets he wanted, as per a doctor's prescription.

The co-pay varies by job classification.

Managers pay $35 per script, while hourly workers and retirees can pay much less - in some cases, just $2.

Cat spokesman Rusty Dunn blamed the ED-pill cutback on the need to rein in Cat's health-care costs.

Last year, the company spent $600 million on health care, $155 million of that on drugs.

He did not have a breakdown as to the cost of ED prescriptions.

Recently, as Restat looked to cut costs, ED drugs got slapped onto the chopping block.

"Erectile-dysfunction drugs are what we call a lifestyle drug," Dunn says.

"They're not life-saving drugs.

They're important.

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(But) setting limits doesn't jeopardize anyone's health." I know a few Cat workers who'd argue that point.

So would their wives.

Still, Dunn says, the company has to draw the line.

"We can't allow unlimited access to ED drugs or any drugs," he says.

Regardless, how did the Cat plan set four pills as the monthly threshold?

Surely that can't be the average output by Cat workers, right?

"We didn't do any kind of (Cat) survey," Dunn says.

Rather, Restat looked ...

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