Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) introduced an amendment to the health care reform bill today that would prevent states from providing drugs like Viagra to “convicted sex offenders, child molesters, and rapists.”Coburn says that the federal government requires states to provide impotence drugs to Medicaid patients, so that “we’ve got convicted sex offenders, rapists, and child molesters, and we’re taking federal tax dollars and buying them drugs so they can act again.”
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