NY Audit: Sex Offenders Getting Viagra

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/22/AR2005052200965.html
Now this REALLY pisses me off! this is just what we need --rapists on drugs!
ated Press
Sunday, May 22, 2005; 10:36 PM

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Scores of convicted rapists and other high-risk sex offenders in New York have been getting Viagra paid by Medicaid for the last five years, the state's comptroller said Sunday.

Audits by Comptroller Alan Hevesi's office showed that between January 2000 and March 2005, 198 sex offenders in New York received Medicaid-reimbursed Viagra after their convictions. Those included crimes against children as young as 2 years old, he said.
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New York auditors are reviewing whether other prescription drugs for sexual dysfunction are being reimbursed by Medicaid for convicted sex offenders, Hevesi spokesman David Neustadt said.

While the auditors didn't review the situation on Viagra reimbursement by Medicaid in other states, he said they have no indication that the policies are different elsewhere.

Okay, now I am completely grossed out.
:wtf: :mad: :puke:

The money grubbing pharmaceutical industry at it's best. I wonder how this issue can be reeled in? It's all legal at the moment and there is money to be had.......

before viagra?