Sex, Drugs, and Bob Dole.

[Technosoul]

The other night I was watching the news and they reported that medicare will soon cover the cost of those sex enhancement drugs such as Prozac which Bob Dole is famous for advertising, it was reported that the medicare coverage will cost an estimated 2 Billion bucks each year, from you taxpayers.

At first I did not think much about it but as time passed that story stuck in my mind so I thought I would post something about it, but do not recall now which news channel I was watching at the time of that report.

These drugs are not really for medical reasons but help old men get it up so they can have recreational (and no doubt non-reproductive) sex. They advertise this will make their wife happy. But here is what I think, I think they will make a lot of young prostitutes happy once they get those pills cheaply and that will be a big boost economically into the billions for that industry. Meaning the taxpayers will be supporting that business in a around-about way, as the old folks head for Nev. The prostitutes make earn enough to start their own powerful lobby group in Washington and by claiming that doctors report that an active sex life will cause you to live longer they could get that "treatment" covered also under medicare, being that most poltical people are over the hill.

There is one draw back to the drugs however and that is that they can drian the blood vessels in the eyes causing blindness. Which gives new meaning to the term "blind love". However they do not feel that occational blindness is reason enough to withdraw the expensive and popular drugs from the shelf.
But they might post a warning on the lable to "talk to your doctor first". Who perhaps gets somekind of kick-back for each subscription written.

Now I know I do not have a webpage on this particular topic to refer too but I honestly did see the report on TV. (the part about the postitutes was an educated guess on my part however).

If you find this topic of interest however, please make your comments. Is it worth two billion to the taxpayers to make sure grandpa can have sex?

Technosoul.

[The Analog Kid]

Government shouldn't be involved in the business of healthcare.
Certainly a small degree of regulation is sensible, but largely they should keep their mitts off.
We need less regulation of the healthcare industry and more regulation of the insurance industry.

[Technosoul]

Analog Kid you have a very good point about the insurance industry, the cost of medical care went up and up due to the fact that insurance companies started to pay the bills (as well as simular governmental programs). The reason is that the insurance companies and governments have millions of dollars that the doctors could tap into and they found out they could bill them for higher amounts then what they could bill individual people for. The insurance company would simply raise the payment for the policy or remove some of the benifits to make ends meet. Where as governments could raise taxes for their programs.

I'm an old dude so let me tell you about the early 1950s before people had medical coverage by insurance companies, the doctors and hospitals had to charge people amounts that they could afford to make payments on out of their family income, it was as simple as that. Doctors did not live high on the hog but always tended to the poor folks anyway on a "pay as you can bases" and no one ever ended up in a courtroom for failure to pay the bills on time because doctors were above that kind life style. But of course the quality of service might not have been as advanced as it is nowadays with all the new fancy equipment. We (most of us) survived anyway with a medical payment to the Doc. of about 10.00 a month. The Doc would mix his own precriptions and hand them out for the most part. But we ate real food and walked most places.

Paying our way with cash out of the pocket kept everything in perspective and business knew the limitations of that system. That system was blown out of the water during the 1960s with credit, insurance companies, governmental programs, and when doctors and drug companies took advantage of what amounted to an illusionary expansion of wealth for the individual workers via "credit cards" and insurance policies.
We went into hock and stayed there.

In turn we had to earn more money so we got into unions and did get bigger paychecks (which basically only partly covered the addition expenses of the new era of debt), that put us higher then other countries relative to our pay checks and so then everyone wanted to work here and send money back to their old country (where their family lives),

That illusionary expanded wealth is called the American Dream. We drive new cars and our doctors have really neat stuff to use for their treatments nowadays, all because we live for today and pay our way later on (sometimes). And if you plot your way with care it is not a bad system when you compare it with other parts of the world. A Dollar Down gets you in the game.

But the point of this post was about medicare coverage for sex drugs when they do not even cover some other drugs that old people really need for maintaining health.
When you retire you cannot live now and pay later because they know later might not last for very long. Fact is you can live longer with half hour walks which work as well as being sexually active phyically. I should bill medicare for doing push-ups!

Whatcha think

Technosoul.

[RickSp]

Quote by: Technosoul The other night I was watching the news and they reported that medicare will soon cover the cost of those sex enhancement drugs such as Prozac which Bob Dole is famous for advertising, it was reported that the medicare coverage will cost an estimated 2 Billion bucks each year, from you taxpayers.

TS,

I think you need Viagra not Prozac. Prozac is an anti-depressant which I've read reduces sex drive.

And yes, taxpayers have no business subsizing ED treatment.