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800,000 Viagra pills paid for last year by Taxpayer for Medical Card Holders.

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  • 24-01-2012 1:34pm
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    A2LUE42
    Registered Users Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭


    Just heard that on Newstalk, Surely I didn't hear correctly :confused:


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    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    At last the gubberment is giving people pleasure. Anyway, it's a drug, it has a use and floppiness is a recognised medical condition. What's the problem?


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    Attabear
    Registered Users Posts: 326 ✭✭Attabear


    A2LUE42 wrote: »
    Just heard that on Newstalk, Surely I didn't hear correctly :confused:

    That was just for one bloke in the midlands.


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    #4
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    It's all part of Fianna Fails' erection promises.


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    #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Well.

    That's a hard fact to swallow.


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    #6
    Gareth2011
    Closed Accounts Posts: 579 ✭✭✭Gareth2011


    Some people are really hard up.


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    #7
    RachaelVO
    Registered Users Posts: 3,108 ✭✭✭RachaelVO


    Hope they can all stand up and be counted


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    #8
    SafeSurfer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    The government has been screwing us for years, its only fair they should facilitate us screwing each other.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



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    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    It's not only used to give people the horn you know!

    I know a girl who's on a Viagra prescription to keep basically keep blood flow to her bits following complications after childbirth.


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    lemme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭lemme


    You'll have medical card holders cuming on here saying they are too hard-up to take their hands out of their pockets and pay for viagra themselves.


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    #11
    jackal
    Registered Users Posts: 793 ✭✭✭jackal


    The Government really has a hard-on for people on the dole.


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    #12
    Warper
    Registered Users Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭Warper


    What about Cialis, is that included?

    Approx cost per tablet = €15, Max of 4 per person per month. So basically a person can get €60 worth every month which equates to €720. The amount of people doing this is ridiculous. Highlights the abuse of the medical card system in Ireland. I know of people that get drugs on the card to sell to people without a card.


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    #13
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    < ERECTION JOKE HERE >


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    Seachmall
    Registered Users Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    Isn't it a prescription drug?

    If so, one could assume it is being prescribed by a qualified doctor.

    And one could thus infer it is for medicinal reasons.

    Should we discuss how many medical card holders are receiving antibiotics? Or does that not conjure up a gross enough image?


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    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Warper wrote: »
    What about Cialis, is that included?

    Approx cost per tablet = €15, Max of 4 per person per month. So basically a person can get €60 worth every month which equates to €720. The amount of people doing this is ridiculous. Highlights the abuse of the medical card system in Ireland. I know of people that get drugs on the card to sell to people without a card.

    Is Viagra out of patent?


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    AeoNGriM
    Registered Users Posts: 712 ✭✭✭AeoNGriM


    Warper wrote: »
    What about Cialis, is that included?

    Approx cost per tablet = €15, Max of 4 per person per month. So basically a person can get €60 worth every month which equates to €720. The amount of people doing this is ridiculous. Highlights the abuse of the medical card system in Ireland. I know of people that get drugs on the card to sell to people without a card.

    So squeal on them then.


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    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,437 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    Gareth2011 wrote: »
    Some people are really hard up.

    BAH!! damn you!!!!


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    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,398 ✭✭✭cml387


    Attabear wrote: »
    That was just for one bloke in the midlands.


    Willie Power?


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    I Heart Internet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,678 ✭✭✭I Heart Internet


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    It's all part of Fianna Fails' erection promises.

    Brilliant :D

    Think it was a €6 million odd spend according to the radio. To be fair - it is an actual medical condition which (so I hear....) can cause great distress.

    The whole drug procurement strategy of the HSE is badly in need of a shake-up alright. We can do better.


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    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    smash wrote: »
    It's not only used to give people the horn you know!

    I know a girl who's on a Viagra prescription to keep basically keep blood flow to her bits following complications after childbirth.

    ....good divine jaysus.....

    Them wimmin is awful complicated things.


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    DrumSteve
    Registered Users Posts: 10,799 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    < *INSERT*ERECTION JOKE HERE >

    chuckle.


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    #22
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    ah bollix i cant think of a joke :(


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    #23
    jester77
    Registered Users Posts: 11,262 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Viagra today, child benefit tomorrow!


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    #24
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users Posts: 7,936 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    Seachmall wrote: »
    Isn't it a prescription drug?

    If so, one could assume it is being prescribed by a qualified doctor.

    And one could thus infer it is for medicinal reasons.

    it can be used for the treatment of angina. causes blood vessels to dilate.


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    Seachmall
    Registered Users Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    davet82 wrote: »
    ah bollix i cant think of a joke :(

    Aye, in times like these it can be hard to get the juices flowing.


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    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    < ERECTION JOKE HERE >
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


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    #27
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Don't see the problem.

    Far better than ramming people full of anti-depressants and valium because they're stressing out about not being able to get a stiffy and their marriage is going down the tubes. If the government can facilitate people getting their jollies, that will serve society's benefit more than anything.

    I remember talking a psychiatrist in the pub one night who only took patients on the public health schemes. He was frank, more frank than a psychiatrist should be about his patients. I'll never forget one of the thing he said though: "Most of the people who come into me just need a good ride. Nearly all they talk about when they come in, is sex. If the HSE paid for them to go see a hoor instead of giving me €80/hour, it would sort out all their problems".


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    #28
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    AeoNGriM wrote: »
    So squeal on them then.


    Squeal like a liddle piggy.


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    #29
    Gareth2011
    Closed Accounts Posts: 579 ✭✭✭Gareth2011


    Watching Top Gear the other week and the boys were in the andies mountains. Jeremy gave them Viagra as it was to get the blood flowing wetc cause they were so high up and the air was very thin. James comes up with " Give me some of that water or im going to have a massive neck" :D


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    gbee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,388 ✭✭✭gbee


    It's also a vital life saving drug if one wants to take a jeep over the highest parts of the Andes.


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    #31
    Stark
    Registered Users Posts: 20,950 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    Seachmall wrote: »
    Should we discuss how many medical card holders are receiving antibiotics? Or does that not conjure up a gross enough image?

    You can't sell unused antibiotics for €20 a pill.


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