Miss Daisy's Driving - By William Saletan:
"Medicare will cover Viagra and other drugs for sexual dysfunction. Critique: Just when you thought government couldn't get dumber, here comes the boner subsidy. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, will file legislation to ban Medicare coverage of 'lifestyle drugs.' King tells NYT, 'We are promoting abstinence for young people with raging hormones, and yet we are going to ask them to pay taxes for sex-enhancing drugs for seniors?' Defense: Medicare is just following precedent: Insurers already cover 'quality-of-life' drugs for pain or indigestion, and the Department of Veterans Affairs covers Viagra for 150,000 men. Rebuttal: My God, it's worse than we thought. Implication: The distinction between necessary and elective medicine is breaking down."
Great....now, not only do we get the 4-hour erection ads, we now have to watch them knowing that our tax dollars are paying for some guy's wood. Hey ladies....aren't your panti...I mean, shouldn't women be upset that our gov't pays for boners, but not for birth control pills? Women are REALLY getting screwed in this deal ;-)