Comments on: http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/06/some-want-to-take-viagra-off-medicaid.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:50:49 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/06/some-want-to-take-viagra-off-medicaid.html/comment-page-1#comment-53155 Anonymous Wed, 01 Jun 2005 16:53:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2005/06/18405.html#comment-53155 I don't get it. If a normal body function is impaired by disease, and there is a medicine to correct the impairment, isn't it medically necessary?<br/><br/>Is it merely "enhancement" of a sex-life, or restoration of health that illness has taken away?<br/><br/>Viagra doesn't just work on penises. It works on blood vessels, and may have side benefits for other vascular or cardiac problems. It may slow the loss of sexual function by improving the blood supply to tissues.<br/><br/>What about other drugs that simply make people feel better and their body work better? Patient's don't die if they don't take them, so how are those meds to be distinguished as medically necessary?<br/><br/>FWIW, I'm not a guy, and my husband doesn't need any stinkin' viagra. (Yet.) I don’t get it. If a normal body function is impaired by disease, and there is a medicine to correct the impairment, isn’t it medically necessary?

Is it merely “enhancement” of a sex-life, or restoration of health that illness has taken away?

Viagra doesn’t just work on penises. It works on blood vessels, and may have side benefits for other vascular or cardiac problems. It may slow the loss of sexual function by improving the blood supply to tissues.

What about other drugs that simply make people feel better and their body work better? Patient’s don’t die if they don’t take them, so how are those meds to be distinguished as medically necessary?

FWIW, I’m not a guy, and my husband doesn’t need any stinkin’ viagra. (Yet.)

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