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    May 22, 2005

    National Health Care for Pervs - NY Pays for Viagra for Sex Offenders


    National Health Care for Pervs - NY Pays for Viagra for Sex Offenders


    "NY
    Audit - Sex Offenders Getting Viagra
    " from the Washington Post, reports
    that a number of convicted rapists and other sex offenders have been getting
    Medicaid - paid for by law abiding taxpayers for the past five years, according
    to comptroller Alan Hevesi's office - after their convictions!


    This is a result of a 1998 law allowing Viagra to be paid for by Medicaid.
    Secretary of Health and Human Services Leavitt has been contacted - one has
    to wonder how many other states have a similar problem. One has to wonder why
    there has been no cross-checking of this information against the vaunted sex
    offender registry - if that is even operative. Both NY senators said they hope
    this can be solved without legislation - given Congressional gridlock, that
    could be forever. What's next - lighters for arsonists, guns for murderers'
    protection, ski masks for robbers?


    Meanwhile our elderly choose between meds and food...


     


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    Where else but in NY?!? What does a prisoner need with Viagara (sorry I asked)?

    It's not right to provide health care for people which are using it for wrong purposes.

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