p2pnet.net OT News:- Almost 200 New York sex offenders were getting Viagra through the federal-state Medicaid program, writes Frank Cerabino in a Palm Beach Post opinion piece, going on, “Florida, not to be outdone, quickly announced that it had doled out Viagra to 218 sex offenders on Medicaid.

“Take that, New York: Our erectile dysfunction problem among old, disabled and poor perverts is worse than yours.”

Florida attorney general Charlie Crist raged, “It would be difficult to think of a more outrageous misuse of taxpayers’ money than to provide sex offenders with Viagra,” states Cerabino, going on to point out that this compelled George W to, “match Crist’s outrage and come back one better. Get rid of all Medicaid-provided erectile dysfunction medication - whether for sex offenders or not, Bush trumped.”

And, “I don’t think the Medicaid budget ought to be used for funding any of this for anybody, certainly not for sex offenders,” Bush is quoted as announcing.

So, says Cerabino, “it looks like a few hundred depraved apples are ruining it for all the other Medicaid recipients in need of a pharmaceutical jump-start.

Hot flushes
But maybe dispensing free Viagra to sex offenders will, after all, turn out to be a terrible form of punishment.

“Viagra causes blindness,” says eitb unequivocally. The “Basque news and information channel,” it continues, “U.S. health regulators said on Friday they have received more than 40 reports of a type of blindness in men taking impotence drugs, mostly involving Pfizer Inc.’s Viagra, but have not determined if the medicines were responsible.

“The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it has received about 38 reports of the rare condition among Viagra users, four reports among users of Eli Lilly and Co.’s Cialis and one report in a man who took Levitra, made by GlaxoSmithKline Plc.”

However, if you’re a Viagra aficionado, not to worry too much. Just yet, anyhow.

Other reports say the US Food and Drug Administration is still trying to find out whether or not Viagra and Cialis are, in fact, linked to blindness or partial vision loss in some men.

But reports of possible vision difficulties aren’t new.

Viagra manufacturer Pfizer was recently taken to task for failing to fully disclose in its wild and horny advertisement that taking the drug can cause headache, flushing and abnormal vision.

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See:-
Palm Beach Post - Commentary: Halt to Viagra subsidy seems dysfunctional, May 29, 2005
eitb - Viagra causes blindness, May 29, 2005
wild and horny - Flushing Wild Thang, p2pnet, November 16, 2004

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