Posted on 05/23/2005 3:17:23 PM PDT by Feiny
New York's comptroller urged the nation's top health official Sunday to ban high-risk sex offenders and convicted rapists from receiving Viagra paid for by Medicaid.
"Federal, state and local reimbursement for the cost of erectile dysfunction drugs for sex offenders raises serious policy considerations and has the potential to place the public at risk," Comptroller Alan Hevesi wrote Michael Leavitt, secretary of Health and Human Services.
"I am asking that you take immediate action to ensure that sex offenders do not receive erectile dysfunction medication paid for by the taxpayers. I urge you to take administrative action to remedy the situation or draft an amendment to the underlying statute as appropriate," Hevesi wrote.
Hevesi said his office found that from January 1, 2000, through March 31, 2005, 198 Level 3 sex offenders received Medicaid-reimbursed Viagra after being convicted of a sex offense. Sex offenders are those convicted of crimes such as rape, sexual abuse, and sexual conduct against a child.
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Are you posing that question to a hypothetical man or woman?!
100% agree - why should taxpayers pay for folks to get wood? And paying for sex offenders to get it??? That's just insult to injury.
Then again, if the automatic penalty for sex crimes were castration, the question of Viagra would be rather moot.
Hey you govt pukes. Glad to know my hard earned tax dollars are going for this kind of crap.
Oh but you can't alienate a group of people there can we yu stupids.
The best govt is a very small govt.
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