Why should my tax dollars pay for some geezer’s Viagra prescription? Digby writes,
I realize that many people disagree with my moral objections to men getting erections which God clearly doesn’t want them to get, but my principles on this are more important to me than theirs are to them. So too bad. If you want a boner, pay for it yourself.
One could argue that paying for contraceptives and abortions is cost effective, since pregnancy and childbirth are much more expensive. But you can’t say the same thing about erectile dysfunction medicine or devices.
So, no abortion funding, no ED remedy funding. Strip EDs out of Medicare, too.
amen
Not to mention that if you saw your therapist and dealt with your issues in a timely fashion, and kept your high blood pressure and diabetes under control, you probably wouldn’t have ED problems (at least not until you’re too old to look after children, procreation, of course, being the one reason for sex, right?) So, it’s something like smoking, right?
If you can’t have a pregnancy terminated with insurance coverage, you should not have any other procedures, such as ED, stop smoking et cetera covered.
As a friend once said “If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.”
Damn you, Digby! Now who will pay to have my sinuses drained after I snorted all that lime fizzy-water?!
Can we find a pro choice Senator to push for this? The old male Senators aren’t that likely, but maybe a younger woman Senator can twist Harry Reid’s arm?
It makes sense: No boner – no baby. Count me in!
And maybe it will stop all of those annoying lovey-dovey ad’s with seniors sitting in adjoining bath-tubs, or swinging in swings, or exchanging denture’s, or whatever.
On the subject of the abortion clause in the House version, which will probably be in the final version.. IF you want to count noses and admit that health care will not pass without this abomination – then it behoves the cause of pro-choice people to gamble and introduce a poison pill. Make the prohabition so onerous and so hostile to women based on income that the matter MUST come up for judicial review. If we can’t keep it from happening, make the Supreme Court write the law on womens rights by ensuring that the prohabition that does pass IS overtly discriminatory.
Why can’t the government bailout my boner it is not near the moral hazzard of a bankers bonus?