pudge's Journal: Second-Class Citizens

"Products that treat erectile dysfunction are part of the overall treatment of patients. Medicare and Medicaid patients should not be like second-class citizens when their diseases are treated," he said.

If "[treated like] second-class citizens" means "getting only necessary treatment," then absolutely, people who are getting their care paid for by tax dollars should be treated like second-class citizens. The purpose of these programs is to help people who have needs they cannot pay for by themselves, not to make their lives as good as they would be if they could pay for themselves.

birth control?

[tf23]

so what about birth control pills?

some women want them just to have them.
some women want them to keep them from being pregnant.
some need the pills for medical reasons.

yet, with all the above, our tax dollars are paying for it.

good? bad?

or is paying for everyone to have them the lesser evil then a lot more unwanted/unplanned-for mouths to feed?

Re:birth control?

[pudge]

I'd much rather pay for birth control than Viagra. :-)

I have no particular objection to taxpayer funding for birth control, apart from more general objections about federal government paying for health care in the first place. It doesn't fall under the same heading as ED treatment does.

Re:birth control?

[Kymermosst]

so what about birth control pills?

Interesting.

some women want them just to have them.

Then they can buy them.

some women want them to keep them from being pregnant.

My take:

You don't want to get fat, put the fork down.
You don't want to gamble your money away, don't go to a casino.
You don't want to get pregnant, don't f*** around.

some need the pills for medical reasons.

And *that* should be covered by medicare/medicaid, etc. Though, most people on these programs are too old to suffer from endome

Disease?

[John Harrison]

ED is a disease? I wonder how you catch it?

By the same token baldness is a disease, and we all deserve a full head of hair, right?

Re:Disease?

[Red Warrior]

Great. Way to go. Any other bright ideas you want to pass on to them?

I can see it now, the "No Scalp Left Behind Act of 2005" Won't someone please think of the pates?.

I could actually SEE them doing that....