McCain's Viagra Moment

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• Posted By: djhouston @ 10/08/2008 1:05:38 PM

  Comment: I have just now read of this story about McCain and Viagra, and it came as a shock and surprise to me.
  
  My insurance company has no limit on coverage of contraceptives, but only allows 8 Viagra tablets of 100mg per month. Imagine an insurance company telling you (and your doctor) that you could only have sex twice a week (some kind of national average?). Actually, my doctor prescribed Viagra for me in low doses before and after radical surgery for prostate cancer, with the thought that it would help with recovery of the nerves down there that were injured in the surgery.
  
  So, Viagra is not only a "recreational" drug, but, for me and many other prostate cancer surgery patients, rehabilitative therapy. I complained of discrimination (Viagra vs. contraceptives) to the insurance company and my company's human resource dept., but they said they were just following "industry standards" for amount covered. I also let this drug company's representative that I wanted to complain about Viagra's TV campaign, Viva Viagra, because I think this contributed to the drug's recreational image which may have made it look bad to the insurance companies (they cover daily doses of lots more expensive drugs when they think that people are really sick), But I see why Pfizer did it. If insurance companies were going to discriminate against men regarding this drug, then they would hope to get guys to pay out of pocket to get it. And I understand why businesses'HR departments would pay for contraceptives and not Viagra: birth control pills are cheaper than having to both pay and replace a productive employee out on maternity leave, and who cares what men do or can't do after business hours.

• Posted By: cani77 @ 10/04/2008 5:13:19 PM

  Comment: Comment: The Bush Depression
  
  In a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future.
  I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
  Also, he perfectly predicted the current real estate market meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen in the next couple years
  is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
  The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide the largest morgage bank in the world,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch which are 3 out of the top 5 wall street firms. Also, Fanny and Freddy Mae which hold 50 percent of the home loans in the United States.
  The government took them over because they are essentially bankrupt.If they didn't the entire financially system would virtually shut down, the stock market would crash and we would suffer beyond what any of us have seen before.
  
  McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
  That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand exactly what is broken.
  It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use complex mathematical models very few people understand.
  Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.
  
  Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
  Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
  No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He either didn't care or didn't realize that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime.
  It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
  even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a surplus like Bush did but a tanking economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit.Bush created a national debt larger then the first 42 presidents combined
  If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
  When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
  So why are the polls even close then ?
  The chairman of McCains campaign recently said that people don't vote on issues they vote on a personality composite. Which means he is trying to sell you personality instead of results.
  Let's teach him we are smarter than that .
  
  31 states are voting now, dont wait
  Elect Obama Biden 2008
  
  
  
  
  Check out this video of sarah palins interview before you vote
  
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4i
  
  

• Posted By: delfairchild @ 07/28/2008 10:34:31 PM

  Comment: A small study has shown Viagra to help women in menopause and taking depressants have an orgasim.
  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,388382,00.html