Viagra was put on most states lists of approved medications right after it was released.
Being a working stiff (bad pun) I have high deductible medical insurance, and couldn't really afford all these fancy medical procedures. I just have to limp along with my little aches and pains.
Schwing ping!
...sorry....
But they wouldn't pay for my hysterectomy when I was a struggling single mother of two babies.
Yeah, thanks alot Medicaid. You can pay for more sex and better boobs, but not a medical procedure (necessary no less) like hysterectomy.
Duh. The Viagra and penile implants are so the Democrats can screw the tax payers better.
WA ping
There is a person in her mid 20's that comes to our primary care clinic, is on Medicaid, and gets Testosterone injections every 2 weeks, paid for by the taxpayers, in preparation for an addadictomy surgery (as Rush would phrase it). If this person wants a sex change, (s)he should get up off her/his lazy a$$ and get a job to pay for it.
I have a big problem with congress having anything to do with any medical treatment on any level.
This stuff Grassley has hit on is the 'hot button issues' that are a safe call to bring to the public by any politician. But what he didn't go after in medicare and medicaid fraud would make these cases look like spare change.
Socialized medicine is obscene enough without having a politician publicly second guessing medical procedures (Of ANY kind) for political points.
Maybe this thread could be an example of daily experience and human reason would tell me that gender changes are wrong to me but perhaps those funding these procedures are subjective to that reasoning.
But what is the medical science reasoning. Common sense tells me there is no reasoning for gender sex changes or breast implants.
However thinking from a medical science point of veiw perhaps the case for implants was for a post masectomy operation ect. I would have to have all the facts and check out the science and could not base my conclusion on common sense.
However if I was grounded in the teachings of my faith it would reason that these operations are not valid and are vanity issues.
So were the medicaid workers being subjective or objective in the laws or policies guiding their decision?
Or how does that apply if it at all?
Am I missing the point?
Because it's not our money and it belongs to the government and they can do anything they darn well please with it?
I wonder if this Medicaid audit is connected to the UMDNJ Medicaid investigation?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1593821/posts
It's sorta like Somalia---started as humanitarian aid, transformed into nation-building.
Yo, Chuck. It's right there under the Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Clause of The Constitution.
Note to the Senator: Whenever you spend someone else's money - which is all government does - you tend to be very lax and unconscientious in the ways it is spent. Which is why Congress has put us $8 trillion in debt. Hope you wake up soon!