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A federal agency has begun notifying all 50 states that they don't have to offer Medicaid-funded Viagra to sex offenders, a step taken after it was discovered that more than 400 convicted sex offenders in New York and Florida were reimbursed for the erectile dysfunction drug.
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Posted by Tyler Cowen on May 24, 2005 at 08:14 AM in Medicine | Permalink
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