"It's a number that's just shocking," says Iowa Republican Representative Steve King in the Washington Times.
That's the cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office for how much Medicare will spend in a decade just for covering impotence drugs. King is sponsoring a bill to stop most impotence drug sales under Medicare.
Posted by schwitz at May 18, 2005 08:21 AM | TrackBackWhy shouldn't the federal government investigate drugs for conditions that affect a lot of people and are, thus, "popular." This remains a democracy, for the time being.
People like Rep. King wring their hands (around what, I don't want to know)because somewhere in this great country of ours, people might want to have sex.
That fear also motivates the yahoos who last year came within a single vote of defunding NIH grants on STDs.
Posted by: Ira Allen at May 19, 2005 09:59 AMWe are not alone. China will be spending who knows (or can comprehend how much) on impotency treatments within the decade or the next--depending on how many people they want living in China.
Posted by: K. Mull at October 10, 2005 09:20 PM