RSSHillary Wants To Get Rid of Bill’s Viagra
This story has great potential. But without the little blue pill, I am not sure I am up to it.
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton wants to pull the plug on the Viagra welfare program passed by her husband’s administration, which ended up doling out the powerful impotence drug to sex offenders.
“She does not believe anyone on Medicaid should have Viagra paid for,” Sen. Clinton’s spokesman Philippe Reines told the New York Post on Thursday.
Bill Clinton’s spokesman Jim Kennedy refused to comment on Mrs. Clinton’s decision to put the kibosh on her husband’s Viagra giveaway, which was implemented in 1998 during the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
The New York Times, for instance, reported at the time:
“The Clinton Administration has told state officials that it intends to require their Medicaid programs to pay for medically approved uses of the impotence drug Viagra.”
Chris Jennings, a Clinton health policy aide, told the paper that his instructions were: “If there is a medical rationale for using Viagra, it must be covered.”
State officials were quick to express outrage over the Viagra mandate.
Then-Florida Governor Lawton Chiles complained: “Governors believe that Viagra should be a state option, not a mandate. A Viagra mandate would increase state costs and limit state flexibility.”
But Clinton’s Viagra giveaway went forward anyway, with taxpayers footing the bill for hundreds of millions of dollars in expenses.
If left in place, the Clinton Viagra plan is expected to cost taxpayers $2 billion over the next ten years, according to the New York Post – an expense that didn’t come to light until this week, when reports surfaced that convicted sex offenders were taking advantage of the program.
Though Sen. Clinton now objects to her husband’s Viagra mandate, there’s no record she voiced any complaints about the program when she was first lady.
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Looks like the Bush Administration is still, 6 months into his second term, cleaning up the mess left by Bill Clinton.