Sex Offenders Get Viagra At Taxpayer Expense
Oh my...
Un-flipping-believable.
Of course, the massive prescription drug entitlement President Bush pushed through congress and signed into law has tax payers doling out dollars for Viagra as well. Which makes me wonder, why should taxpayers be spending money on boner pills for anybody, let alone paying to give them to high-risk sex offenders.
(via Capital Region People)
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Convicted rapists and other high-risk sex offenders in New York are getting Viagra paid by Medicaid, according to state Comptroller Alan Hevesi, who has asked the federal health secretary to stop the practice.
"I am asking that you take immediate action to ensure that sex offenders do not receive erectile dysfunction medication paid for by taxpayers," Hevesi wrote in a letter Sunday to Michael Leavitt, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He requested immediate administrative action or that Leavitt draft an amendment to the Medicaid law if necessary.
Audits by Hevesi's office showed that between Jan. 1, 2000, and March 31, 2005, in New York, 198 Level 3 sex offenders received Medicaid-reimbursed Viagra after their convictions. Those included crimes against children as young as 2 years old, he said.
Un-flipping-believable.
Of course, the massive prescription drug entitlement President Bush pushed through congress and signed into law has tax payers doling out dollars for Viagra as well. Which makes me wonder, why should taxpayers be spending money on boner pills for anybody, let alone paying to give them to high-risk sex offenders.
(via Capital Region People)
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