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Steve King: “Well, Medicare prescription drugs are designed to pay for prescription drugs for people to improve their health…”

On the recordMay 16, 2005
Well, Medicare prescription drugs are designed to pay for prescription drugs for people to improve their health, maintain their health, and provide life-saving medication. This is not life-saving medication. There are only two reasons for sex, and one is procreation; the other is recreation. And in either case, it's not the taxpayers' responsibility to subsidize it.
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Steve King
Republican · Iowa

Editor's note · Context

Representative Steve King argues against Medicare covering impotence drugs, stating they are not life-saving and should not be subsidized by taxpayers.

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