The Department of Defense has spent about $1.2 million on impotence medications since they first went on its insurance plan’s formulary, including more than a half-million dollars last year alone.
Federal government contract records, filed under the category ‘troop support,’ show just how reliant America’s fighting men have become on the little blue pill that can add between-the-sheets pushups back into their regular fitness regimen.
Tapayers began footing the bill for erectile dynfunction medicine in 1998, when the military’s TRICARE medical plan and covered up to six pills per month.
Records for those early years are hard to come by because Pentagon physicians were required to special-order the medication for each patient.By 2008, however, the government began issuing regular contracts to stock the pills in its pharmacies.
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