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U.S. Senate Rejects Sex Offender Amendment To Health Care Bill

By Corey Rayburnyung

Sex offender regulation and health care reform don't often mix, but that did not stop Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) from trying to bar insurance coverage of erectile dysfunction drugs for sex offenders. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) was quoted as saying, "how serious could they be offering an amendment on Viagra for rapists?" From the New York Times blog: It was, by all accounts, the most politically volatile amendment proposed to the health care legislation so far: a proposal by Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, to bar federal health programs and the future federally regulated insurance exchanges from covering the cost of erectile dysfunction medication for convicted sex offenders. Mr. Coburn, arguing for his amendment, said it was a step intended to save taxpayers? money...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on March 26, 2010 (boomark / email).