Posted on 01/14/2014 10:11:45 AM PST by dead
Penis pumps cost the U.S. governments Medicare program $172 million between 2006 and 2011, about twice as much as the consumer would have paid at the retail level, according to a government watchdogs report released on Monday...
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Considering the strain retiring baby boomers will soon be placing on Medicares budget, shouldnt we be focusing this entitlement program on real, life-saving treatment and equipment to serve the health needs of seniors instead of subsidizing penis pump purchases? Ben Domenici of the Heartland Institute think tank said in an email statement.
And to those seniors who really do want one, added Domenech, just buy it yourself you dont need to send the bill to your fellow Americans.
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He’s a little rascal, on his Little Rascal, with his little rascal.
Well done!
Won't stop til I drop with a smile.
screw the grand kids
We need more stiff competition. /s
That money is really going to Obama, congresspeople, Hillary and their buddies. Probably Soros too because he doesn’t want to really spend any of his own money. It’s probably our money that is supporting all of this including all the libs agendas.
Ahhh... I see what you did there.
I have a problem with Medicare overpaying for the devices.
But I don’t have a problem with Medicare providing the device to elderly who have a doctor’s prescription for it.
Where did you get the $172 figure? 172.4 million / 474 thousand claims is 363.71 each... or were you referring to the 172 million?
Neither party will do anything about this..they are so afraid of losing erections
Partly true, but only partly. A few years ago I went from one testing system to another and had a few hundred of the old test strips left over. I sold them on eBay.
Somebody mentioned Cialis at a group I attend and another asked if you could get it over the counter. The first guy said, “You can if you take two of them.”
From the same government that brought you the national nipple, the national milker.
So....., that’s what thet’re calling hum-job hookers now.
[Thanks, Anonymous Pinger!]
That ain’t milk.
Close enough for government work.
Homework.
If so, lactose intolerance just became a hate crime.
I don’t think that guy cares about the size of his.......if you know what I mean.
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