No-brainers are hard to come by, so this is big stuff. AP:
It took a hurricane to do it, but Congress has finally ended federal subsidies for users of Viagra and other sexual performance drugs.
The Senate on Wednesday passed without debate and sent to the president legislation that ends Medicare and Medicaid payments for erectile dysfunction drugs as part of a package that extends medical help for the poor and provides unemployment benefit aid to states hit by Hurricane Katrina.
“This legislation extends very important benefits for people who live on the edge of poverty,” said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa.
“And the provision included to offset the cost of these programs recognizes that taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay for certain lifestyle prescription drugs through Medicare and Medicaid.”
