QUESTIONABLE MEDICARE PAYMENTS

U.S. fraud investigators are looking into questionable Medicare payments for penis pumps, as spending on the devices has skyrocketed 500 percent over the last decade, Scripps Howard News Service reported.

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services found that the taxpayer-funded insurance program spent $36 million on “male vacuum erection systems” last year –- up from $7.2 million in 2000, the news service reported. In 2010, Medicare paid for nearly 98,000 of the devices.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/13/penis-pumps-medicare-fraud_n_1671600.html?ref=topbar 
  
Meanwhile,  Republicans in congress can't stay off of women's reproductive issues from ideas about eliminating birth control,  to abortion and attempts by Republicans in Congress to restrict health care for women,  which  went over like steak on a  vegan's table. .. Even lady Republicans in the Senate feigned concern about the bill.    (Of course, they still voted for it because they are, like the non-lady members of their party, completely unprincipled. But at least they made some "I'm concerned" statements before throwing their fellow Lady-Americans under the bus.)