ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Senate Commerce Committee unanimously approved a requirement that insurance companies pay for wigs for cancer patients and also for baldness in general. The bill had been proposed by Senator Kari Dziedzic, D-Minneapolis, herself a cancer patient. Insurance coverage would max out at $1,000 a year. “I have the resources to buy the wigs, but not everybody does,” Dziedzic testified. “This will allow others to get wigs to help them present their best self to the world.” Off-the-shelf wigs start about $9 at Walmart. The bill hoes next goes to the Senate Health and Human Services Committee.
Dziedzic. In Senate since 2012.