| Medicare covers the cost of Viagra
It has been recently declared that Medicare would cover the cost of Sexual Performance Enhancing drugs like Viagra. The watch dogs and the conservative groups have been opposing this decision.
They feel that it's useless to bankrupt the country in the name of providing relief to the people by giving such kind of drugs because drugs like Viagra are not life-saving drugs but luxurious drugs. The hard earned taxed money should not be wastefully utilized in providing drugs like Viagra.
"The law says if it's an FDA-approved drug and it is medically necessary, it has to be covered," said Gary Karr, spokesman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which administers the health insurance program for older Americans.
Like those for maladies such as high blood pressure and heart disease, prescriptions for Viagra and similar drugs in its class will be tightly controlled. The new prescription coverage will begin Jan. 1 and is expected to cost more than $500 billion in the next decade.
"These bureaucrats defend the additional drugs as 'lifestyle-improving' instead of 'just lifesaving,' but tax-funded Viagra will drain resources from medication for more severe conditions," said Schatz, the president of one of the Conservative Groups.
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