SACOFTOMATOES

NO VIAGRA FOR INMATES

Today the Sacbee reports that Rep John Doolittle wants an amendment on a funding bill for the Health and Human Services Dept. that would prevent any money being spent to convicted offenders with sexual or erectile dysfunction problems. It seems in the past convicted sexual offenders have been getting reimbursed from Medicaid for their viagra.
How about giving them something to reverse the problem I don't think this would be to hard to do nor would it find any stiff competition. I don't hear any prison reform activist rising to the fight for viagra, in fact the opposition has been flaccid.
The amendment is a good thing the taxpayers save some bucks this time and its the offender that gets screwed. But I'm sure that some people don't want to leave the offenders hanging.

posted by pappy @ 8:55 AM