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Funny headline. Serious story though. Why are we paying for this?

[cripplecreek]

Government sucks.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Why are we paying for this?

It makes it easier to screw us.

[tet68]

I bet it doesn’t reach six replies like the first time
it was posted.

[nascarnation]

It’s an FDA approved medical device.
Lots of folks are making good money “milking” Medicare.
Look at all the blood glucose test strips for sale on Craigslist and eBay.

[tomkat]

                <LOL>

[Celtic Conservative]

"that's not mine, man!

CC

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

Who inserted the funding? Weiner?

[Amadeo]

This blows.

“The report by the inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services said Medicare, the government health insurance system for seniors, paid nearly 474,000 claims for vacuum erection systems, or VES, totaling about $172.4 million from 2006 to 2011. Yearly claims for the devices nearly doubled from $20.6 million in 2006 to $38.6 million in 2011.

According to the Mayo Clinic, penis pumps are one of a few treatment options for erectile dysfunction.”

[TexasCajun]

The Jokes just write themselves!

[Sherman Logan]

Them little blue pills ain’t cheap either.

Unless you buy them from India. Shhhh.

[Salgak]

Even when Goverment is SUPPOSED to suck, it screws even THAT up. . .

[Red Badger]

Do they actually work? Shouldn’t that be a criteria for their purchase? If not, then no way!..................

[sickoflibs]

Medicare trust fund scam: just cash in those IOUs from one government account to to put it in another to spend by borrowing the $$$.

its magical $$$.

[PGR88]

Why are we paying for this?

Because we have an out-of-control government, which is the nature of all Central Governments, but also a Federal Reserve which can print money and manipulate interest rates to finance it all.

[mikrofon]

“shouldn’t we be focusing this Obamacare program on real, life-saving treatment and equipment to serve the health needs of seniors – instead of subsidizing contraceptive purchases?”

[dfwgator]

"Honest, it's not mine."

[Wuli]

“And to those seniors who really do want one,” added Domenech, “just buy it yourself – you don’t need to send the bill to your fellow Americans.”

From Foodstamp purchases to Medicare, the anything goes gravey train rolls on (for now??).

[faithhopecharity]

Your tax money. Hard at work.

[freebilly]

Our President uses one of those on his head....

[Cyber Liberty]

The Post needs to give this headline writer a raise. A big fat one.