Ban Viagra Now!

[redqueen]

[FarPoint]

1. I would like a link...

so I can post it on facebook.

[HERVEPA]

2. Right click on it and you can have a link.

[redqueen]

3. Right click,

> properties

or

> open image in new tab




Also, this:

If Mifepristone turns out to be the cause of death in all five possible cases, the pill's mortality rate will be under one in 100,000. Between 1988 and 1997 (before the abortion pill was approved) the mortality rate from legal induced abortion, according to the Centers for Disease Control, was 0.7 per 100,000.

....The Association of Reproductive Health Professionals cites a mortality rate of five per 100,000 for Viagra, the erectile dysfunction drug, and as Dr. Paul Blumenthal, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, puts it, "That's a risk men are willing to take to have erections."

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2006_04/008624.php

[FarPoint]

4. Thank You....

simple right click won't let me post on Facebook relating to privacy???

I'm going to get it one way or another.

[redqueen]

5. Odd...

Try this maybe?

https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhamiltons-publius.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F65732044424

It's on tumb1r, this is the link from their "share to facebook" thingy.

Here's the page where I found it

http://hamiltons-publius.tumblr.com/post/65732044424

[FarPoint]

6. I got it....

Up and rolling on my wall....

[mac56]

11. Right click on it, save the image to your desktop

then paste that onto your Facebook page. Works a treat.

[1monster]

13. Right click on the picture. Then copy and paste to Paint. Save it in

My Documents. Then click Upload photos on Facebook. That will take you to your Documents folder. Click on the saved photo and it will upload to Facebook.

[polly7]

7. Viagra has other medical uses besides treating ED.

For example..., pulmonary hypertension, mountain sickness, Raynaud's phenomenon ... and has long been tested and tried in cases of congestive heart failure or diastolic dysfunction.

Viagra: Not Just for Erections

http://www.alternet.org/story/61605/viagra%3A_not_just_for_erections

With that said, I think any and all treatments should be shared by a whole population no matter the reason, and impotence is one of them - any couple wanting a family should have the right to anything the medical community has to offer.

But, before the snark ..... I did get your point.

[redqueen]

8. Yeah, contraception also has other uses. We don't see the same outcry about banning Viagra,

or not covering it with insurance, despite it being more harmful, and we all know why.

[Voice for Peace]

19. ++++ this has made me cranky for a long time.

[valerief]

17. Pulmonary hypertension, mountain sickness, Raynaud's phenomenon are god's will. nt

[judesedit]

9. Right on!

[1monster]

10. There is something to that... ED may be and often is one of the first signs of cardio-

vascular disease.

Men who are suffering from ED should have a complete, full-body check-up to rule out serious illnesses that can be aggravted by viagra.

[Rainforestgoddess]

12. Perhaps a rectal ultrasound n/t

[Z_California]

14. A MANDATORY rectal ultrasound

[brewens]

15. No funding for Planned Parenthood, banning birth control but they will allow anything

that helps women get pregnant. They hate science except medical science that helps couples conceive. That can't be left up to "Gods will".

[egold2604]

16. Viagra is NOT covered by Medicare

Since Viagra is considered to be a lifestyle drug, it is NOT covered by medicare nor by medicaid. It is covered by private insurance companies.

Viagra was originally intended for Pulmonary Hypertension and during the clinical trials, an interesting side effect was noted. People who take Viagra for PH take about 90 pills a month at a cost of $120 per month. People who take Viagra for ED pay $25 per pill.

[jtuck004]

18. Viagra is not covered by most private insurance either, so that $25/pill is out of pocket. n/t

[Voice for Peace]

20. are you sure?

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/20/5-sexual-health-services-insurance-will-cover-for-men/

[jtuck004]

22. Damn sure, despite propoganda. Feel free to check with a few insurance companies, especially ones

who cover a ton of people, like, say, those who provide insurance for state employees in Washington, and a couple of other states.

The person writing that article is a bald-faced liar when she states that.

Typical in the argument, however.

[leftyohiolib]

24. mine will not

[mockmonkey]

26. mine didn't (aetna) n/t

[redqueen]

28. Anecdotes are worthless.

Erections Get Insurance; Why Not the Pill?
June 19, 2002
By GERALDINE SEALEY

Within weeks of hitting the U.S. market in 1998, more than half of Viagra prescriptions received health insurance coverage. If many women weren't already outraged that they had to pay for birth control out of pocket, they were infuriated at the preference given to the anti-impotence pills.

But the fury over Viagra may have given the fight for contraception covered under insurance plans just the momentum it needed. Women's groups say they're making significant progress in their battle to get reimbursed for birth control, even though insurers still argue that covering contraception will boost already skyrocketing health-care premiums.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=91538a

VIAGRA is covered by most insurance plans. As of March 2012, VIAGRA is covered for 65% of insured patients (including Tier 2, Tier 3, Step Edit, and PA status).1

http://www.pfizerpro.com/hcp/viagra/patient-resources/coverage-and-patient-assistance

[awoke_in_2003]

23. Cigna doesn't pay for it...

$30 a pill here.

[redqueen]

27. Does the poster say anything about Medicare or Medicaid?

Are the bleating shitheads who complain about contraceptives being provided in the insurance plans talking about Medicare or Medicaid?

[lumberjack_jeff]

21. ACA makes women's contraception free. Free if you are insured by Medicaid or private insurance.

"Free" = not subject to co-pays or deductibles.

Viagra isn't covered at all by medicaid, and only from private insurance if the insurer chooses to cover it, and then only to the extent that your deductible is satisfied.

Impotence may or may not be God's will, but refusing to pay for it is definitely Kathleen Sebelius' will.

Public policy that fits on a bumper sticker has it's place, but "freedumbnation" is doing it wrong.

Their site redirects to a new-agey woo infomercial "adrenal fatigue" snake-oil ecommerce site.

Theos Health Body Balance Quick Start Package is only $349! They offer an affiliate program and would pay you handsomely for the clicks.

... if they aren't already.

http://www.freedumbnation.com

[ljm2002]

29. I did not know...

...that Kathleen Sebelius had such fine control over our health care law. I thought that she was in charge of administering the law that is in place, not that she is able to dictate what is covered and what is not.

Please, can you cite your reference for the statement that "refusing to pay for it is definitely Kathleen Sebelius' will"???

[KansDem]

25. Ah, it doesn't work anyway...

...or so I'm told!