HomeschoolrsRUs
06-16-2005, 08:45 AM
The government helping out in the bedroom
John Stossel
June 15, 2005
You know some people pay for sex. But did you know some people are having sex -- and you're paying?
Government health insurance now includes trying to improve people's sex lives. I'm all for improving folks' sex lives, but with our tax money?
[ SNIP, SNIP ]
But why should taxpayers have to buy Viagra for anyone? (emphasis mine)
Because the Clinton administration told states they have to. Current federal officials have kept the policy. They wouldn't agree to a television interview about it, but they told us that the law requires that drugs approved by the FDA must be covered by Medicaid.
Many doctors defend the policy. "Erectile dysfunction is not fun, it's a disease," Dr. Steven Lamb, who wrote a book about Viagra. "It needs to be treated. It needs to be paid for."
I gave him a hard time about it: "Sex is a government entitlement now? . . . Do you ever think about budgeting? What the taxpayer pays?"
"What we're trained in is to be your advocate," he said. "I do not take costs into account."
The rest of this (unbelievable to me) story found here: John Stossel: The government helping out in the bedroom (http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/js20050615.shtml)
John Stossel
June 15, 2005
You know some people pay for sex. But did you know some people are having sex -- and you're paying?
Government health insurance now includes trying to improve people's sex lives. I'm all for improving folks' sex lives, but with our tax money?
[ SNIP, SNIP ]
But why should taxpayers have to buy Viagra for anyone? (emphasis mine)
Because the Clinton administration told states they have to. Current federal officials have kept the policy. They wouldn't agree to a television interview about it, but they told us that the law requires that drugs approved by the FDA must be covered by Medicaid.
Many doctors defend the policy. "Erectile dysfunction is not fun, it's a disease," Dr. Steven Lamb, who wrote a book about Viagra. "It needs to be treated. It needs to be paid for."
I gave him a hard time about it: "Sex is a government entitlement now? . . . Do you ever think about budgeting? What the taxpayer pays?"
"What we're trained in is to be your advocate," he said. "I do not take costs into account."
The rest of this (unbelievable to me) story found here: John Stossel: The government helping out in the bedroom (http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/js20050615.shtml)