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America under ObamaCareApril 8, 2010American under ObamaCare, Day 16: Viagra for sex offenders!Posted by StaffCongressional Research Service: Health law may allow Viagra coverage for sex offendersThe Congressional Research Service confirmed in a memo Wednesday that rapists and sex offenders may get federally subsidized Viagra and other sexual performance enhancing drugs under the recently passed health care reform law - information that Republicans charge will haunt Democrats in upcoming elections."Providing child molesters with taxpayer-funded Viagra shows the folly of government-run health care. Senators who allowed this to happen will be haunted by this vote for years to come," said John Hart, a spokesman for Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.). Coburn, who requested the CRS review of the health care reforms, sought to add last-minute changes to the health care reconciliation bill that would prohibit sex offenders from receiving drugs such as Viagra under the health care law. However, that amendment was defeated during the Senate's vote-a-rama.According to the CRS, under existing rules there are no prohibitions against providing erectile dysfunction drugs to rapists, pedophiles or other types of sex offenders...
"Providing child molesters with taxpayer-funded Viagra shows the folly of government-run health care. Senators who allowed this to happen will be haunted by this vote for years to come," said John Hart, a spokesman for Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.).
They have no concience to haunt, John. And ask Tom if he done bashing Fox News and TEA partiers and kissing up to Obama?
Yeah, um, people were talking about this before the bill was passed. Funny how it gets widespread coverage only after the fact.