Sex, Drugs, And Congress

Lloyd Garver Up In Arms Over Whether Gov't Should Pay For Viagra

(CBS)  But why should those who suffer from this condition be penalized because the drug companies chose this marketing strategy? What if someone has "E.D." because of a war injury? What if it's the result of depression, or diabetes, or cancer? It doesn't sound like a frivolous "lifestyle" choice to me then.

So, it's a shame that Congress has been blinded by prudishness and peppy commercials. They can't see that sometimes this drug is not just something that people add to their love lives like a martini or their favorite CD. Twenty years from now when some of the Congressmen who voted for this ban start to use these products, it won't matter to them whether Medicare will pay. Unlike the general public, they'll have no problem coming up with the money. Like Bob Dole before them, all they'll have to do is a few commercials for these drugs.

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Lloyd Garver has written for many television shows, ranging from "Sesame Street" to "Family Ties" to "Frasier." He has also read many books, some of them in hardcover.