Bush Administration - Hard-On Men

[donsu]

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One of my favorite lines of all time came from Gloria Steinem:

“If men could get pregnant abortion would be a sacrament.”


Amen sister. But what happens if a man can’t get “it” up? That, it seems, calls for government intervention. This administration, that is more than happy to force women to go through all 9 months of an unwanted pregnancy, are not about to let American men go through a night without a woody.

So yesterday Medicare – the same one that is already broke and getting broker -- announce it would pay the stiff price of ED drugs like Viagra for men who can’t whank their Willies at will.

Now some among us find this decision hard to reconcile with the Bush administration’s refusal to allow Medicaid to cover women’s contraceptive drugs or disease-fighting-unwanted-pregnancy-stopping condoms. Not to mention the Bush administration’s nonstop talk about encouraging abstinence among the unmarried.

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Alrighty, so let me get this straight. If a guy can’t do the deed because his hydraulics are on the fritz, the government will now pay to fix his flat. But, a single couple want to make whoopee without making a baby, or passing on a deadly virus like AIDS, don’t even ask.

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So why do this? There are billions of reasons and none of them have anything to do with making desperate housewives any less desperate. The administration estimates the new drug benefit will cost more than $500 billion in its first 7 years. And who will be getting all that money? Viagra, made by Pfizer, Levitra, marketed by Bayer and GlaxoSmithKline, and Cialis, made by Eli Lilly.

Thirty tablets of Viagra, for example, sell for $260. Keeping a guy up for a month amounts to about the same as if Medicare made his monthly lease payment on a Mercedes or Jag.

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condom makers must not give money to smirk, why else would they be blackballed by the bushgang

[liveoaktx]

1. HOW did this get into Medicare? Was this a bill passed in Congress?

Or does Medicare have the ability to just up and decide what drugs to allow under taxpayer's money?

[kcwayne]

2. So it comes down to this for a lot of retirees...

Do you want to eat, or do you want a hard on?

I think this is a cynical strategy by the Republican's to kill off older men by enticing them to have sex so that they will have heart attacks.

[eldepeche]

3. That's funny; actually,

Viagra began life as a heart medication with some "side effects."