In 1998 the federal government decided that Medicaid prescription programs had to cover Viagra. The office of the New York Comptroller, Alan Hevesi, has discovered that the fine citizens of that state have paid for Viagra prescriptions for 198 sex offenders between Jan. 2000 and March 2005.
Those included crimes against children as young as 2 years old, he said. Hevesi asked Michael Leavitt, secretary of the U.S Department of Health and Human Services in a letter Sunday to "take immediate action to ensure that sex offenders do not receive erectile dysfunction medication paid for by taxpayers."
Since Medicaid plays by the same rules nationwide, we can make the assumption that taxpayers in all 50 states are paying for sex offenders little blue pills. It's one thing to be unsuccessful in preventing these monsters from preying on us. Now we're paying to enable them?
Via Drudge
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