Posted on 08/03/2005 9:14:15 AM PDT by Rakkasan1
Some days, when you read the paper in the morning with a cup of coffee, certain stories jump out at you with such impact that you end up staring out the window trying to gather yourself.
For example, there was a story like that in Tuesday's Pioneer Press, on When I stared out the window I was thinking of what I saw on television the night before.
The story said that, according to the Defense Department, we — you and me — spent $23 million in 2004 on erectile dysfunction medications for 128,000 active-duty and retired military men.
Are we fighting or are we, well, uh, are we, uh, cuddling? That's it. I'll use the word cuddling.
When you see the TV commercials for the three drugs that the Defense Department pays for — Viagra, Cialis and Levitra — there is quite a bit of cuddling taking place. Usually, a woman who looks like Renee Russo is leaning seductively against the weathered shake-shingle siding of a beach house on Nantucket, the wind tousling her hair just so, and the guy, who looks fit enough to have just swum out there from Cape Cod, is supposed to take the hint, from her suggestive posturing, that he better run up the stairs and pop a pill in case the moment strikes.
It's the fitness component that puzzles me. I suppose, in certain cases, an erectile dysfunction drug could help improve a fellow's quality of life. Maybe he has issues that prevent a normal course of exercise, or maybe he is just shy. In any event, I am sure there are times when such a drug is prescribed.
(Excerpt) Read more at twincities.com ...
The VA does not provide Viagra. Not routinely, anyway.
They will give you a script, but you have to take it to a pharmacy and buy it yourself.
(a friend told me, heh)
It beats fading away.
And these "medications" are covered under the new prescription drug welfare program that kicks in soon. That number will be going up, if you'll pardon the expression.
"And these "medications" are covered under the new prescription drug welfare program that kicks in soon."
Thanks jpl. Another reason to lose sleep tonight.
It is estimated that more than half of the people using Viagra, Levita, etc. are doing so recreationally, rather than for true erectile dysfunction. As a doctor friend of mine once said, "It works even better if you don't need it."
I have no problem with tax-payers buying these drugs for active and retired military.
I do have a problem with tax-payers providing them through Medicaid to welfare spongers.
just thinking of all those poor stiffs laying around doing nothing must be hard to take. Poor girl. I bet this is hard to swollow.
Please make me stop!!!
It's an up-and-coming problem that puts everyone between a rock and a hard place.
better living through pharmacology.
A geezer, along with a couple of his buddies, walk into a Pharmacy. The geezer whips out his Medicare drug benefit card, and yells "innkeeper! Woodie pills for my friends!"
** snicker **
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