Medicare B pays for penis pumps

[Aerows]

But we are discussing that the insurance that people pay for shouldn't cover contraceptives.

Uh, what? So we pay for a dick to get erect, but we do not pay for the results of said penis.

Yeah, that sounds like a fair use of funds.

[Cleita]

1. Yep, but nothing to see here, move along. There is no war on women just caterpillars.

[liberal N proud]

2. If you ask, the right will tell you that help for erections is pro procreation

Gotta get it up to make her pregnant.

[Aerows]

4. ?

See, I don't understand the rationale there.

[liberal N proud]

22. Is there ever rationale when it comes to the explainations the right uses?

[Aerows]

40. LOL no

and I still don't get this one.

It's okay for a guy to get coverage on a penis pump that is paid for in full under Medicare B. A woman paying for her own insurance is a slut living off of the government because she takes contraceptives. If you can explain that to me, you are Einstein.

[ejpoeta]

5. maybe they can't get it up because god doesn't want them to. If they are on medicare

then they aren't trying to procreate so they don't even need to get it up.

[Aerows]

9. But they are spending money to get it up

That's the issue. Why do they need to get it up if they are so opposed to anything regarding women's reproductive health?

If a man needs to get it up for his own physical well-being, a woman needs to be able to not get pregnant as a result of said man getting it up.

[Aerows]

11. And yes, *I* shouldn't be paying for some jackass

In Arizona to get it up, while he screams about religious liberty when a woman pays for her own insurance that covers birth control, and he calls her a slut. I don't want to pay for that. I'm fine if she pays her insurance. He needs to just keep his business in his pants.

[Ilsa]

28. Not if it is after a prostatectomy.

Radical prostatectomy renders a man infertile.

And if Rethuglucans want to go after contraception, then we should make sure this is on the table too.

[Aerows]

37. I think so, too

Let's see how the shoe fits on the other foot.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

3. I have a nephew who is a GP. He says that the "medications" most requested by patients in his

practice are Cialis, Viagra, etc. It drives him crazy. As a result, he's begun to use this to advantage. He will advise his patient that he will prescribe one of these types of "medications" providing the patient follows his advice. For example, he'll advise a patient that desperately needs to lose weight, that if he has lost weight by the next visit, he will continue to prescribe the medication, otherwise not. Believe it or not, it works like a dream.

[enough]

6. Interesting. (nt)

[dballance]

13. Wow, some pissy repuke is going to bust him but I hope not.

While I totally agree with what he's doing I'm a little vague on the medical professional ethics of it since it seems a bit like bribery.

I hope he is very carefully wording his advice to make it a medically necessary thing as in "Sure I'll prescribe that for you when, in my professional opinion, you are healthy enough to have sex by losing 20lbs." All those adds on TV do say to check with you doctor to make sure you are healthy enough for sex.

More power to him.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

15. He doesn't care. If they're fat, he's risking his license putting them on Cialis, Viagra, etc.

so either they get healthy, or not. Getting a hard-on is hardly a necessity when what's needed is getting healthy.

[dballance]

17. Well if putting them on ED meds is risking their health he's totally within his license ....

and the whole "First do no harm" thing as part of his oath.

Again, I say more power to him if he can use it to effect medically necessary and positive outcomes.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

19. Absolutely. Patients are really quick to want prescriptions. They feel comfy with them.

But prescriptions are not always healing. All prescriptions all have side effects (and that doesn't exempt Cialis and Viagra, which have their own list of warnings), and the more prescriptions one is on, the more side effects, some more life-threatening than others. If the person is already unhealthy, taking no steps to get healthy, and wants MORE medications, well, you get the picture.

He demands his patients do the maximum to get well, the idea being to get them OFF medication or on less medication, not to get them on more meds.

[Odin2005]

29. My psych textbook says most cases of ED are psychological in origin, not physical.

The proof? the majority of people with ED get "morning wood", indicating the problem is in between one's ears.

I know it's not PC to tell a guy that his ED is all in his head, but those are the facts.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

31. Interesting. What psychological cause can there be for such a thing?

Yes, I imagine it's not easy for anyone to tell a guy his ED is psychologically based. Talk about sexual performance is just difficult.

[Odin2005]

34. It didn't elaborate. It was just a short aside in a section about REM sleep.

[Aerows]

38. LOL Odin, I love the way

You tell it like it is!

[Odin2005]

41. Thanks!

[Aerows]

26. Cialis has heart implications

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And can raise blood pressure, so he's sound in his medical practice of informing men to lose a few pounds. I'm sure he's just laughing because the fat-asses he has in his office have to be told that, yes, you are a fat ass, and no, I won't put you on this unless you lose x amount of weight. He is honest, they don't like the message of being told they are overweight.

Okay, really, no. He's told them that they can't take a particular medication while at a certain triglyceride level, and they bitch about it.

[left on green only]

20. Someone should introduce your nephew's patients to my junk email in box

I receive no less than 7 junk emails per day from different sources trying to sell me that crap. And most of them are only asking $1 a pop for it. Funny, because as near as I can tell, they have no way of knowing what gender I am a member of.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

21. Oh I hate that. I click on the e-mail and mark it as spam for future mailings. nt

[Bonhomme Richard]

7. I didn't know that. n/t

[Aerows]

8. I'm thinking there are a whole lot of

sanctimonious men that don't know that either.

"We shouldn't pay for her to get laid" (even though it's just an insurance clause and she pays for the insurance) "But my dick needs to be hard and paid for under Medicare B - the government."

[Egalitarian Thug]

10. K&R. I think there was a post about this yesterday, but the writer didn't say what

the thing was, just used the brand name and no link, so I had no idea what they were on about.

[Aerows]

12. It was on here yesterday. I researched. It's penis pumps

Men are entitled to penis pumps under Medicare B. How dare women even apply for insurance that covers birth control. Even when it is hormone therapy that is medical in nature. Men - need penis pumps. Women must verify prove and defend when they need hormone therapy

http://www.rejoynstore.com/

[Egalitarian Thug]

14. Yes, it's disgraceful.

Have you seen this video? I think it is apt and very well done.

Enjoy!

[Aerows]

23. Floored me

Watched it twice. It summed it up completely.

[mysuzuki2]

16. Well, that's good news for me! I turn 65 in a little more than a year.

I heartily agree on the hypocracy of the issue though.

[Aerows]

25. LOL

I love you for your honesty, And thank you for being honest. I love you for it.

[eShirl]

18. YES; Erections have consequences.

[Aerows]

24. god forbid a woman apply for birth control

simply because it is hormone treatment.

What do you think about that, eShirl? Is that honest?

[Odin2005]

27. Of course, the laws are written by old men with 25yo mistresses.

And don't tell me most male politicians are faithful husbands, the kind of personality who would be a faithful spouse would not be somebody attracted to politics.

[Warren DeMontague]

30. How else am I supposed to get all the dick out of my basement?

It's flood season, you know.

[Aerows]

36. Well contraception is clearly not covered

so you will have to figure out how to ..ahem.. pump it all out yourself.

[Honeycombe8]

32. You've gotta be kidding! nt

[Aerows]

35. Nope. Covered by Medicare B.

Penis pump

But contraception? Oh my word that's anti-religion.

[Initech]

33. Was this law written by Austin Powers?

[Aerows]

39. I kid you not

This is why the vast majority of Americans wonder what the fuck Republicans are thinking when they attack women PAYING for their own insurance while the government pays for a device to have their dick get hard, even if they have nothing to do with it.

It's kid of ridiculous all the way around.