The Daily Show correspondent Samantha Bee revealed a telling bit of information on America's health care spending on Wednesday night. While politicians argue spending taxpayer money on providing women contraceptives, no one has taken issue with the government's lavish spending on penis pumps.
As The Wrap reports, the segment investigating the debate on the government-mandated contraceptive issue of Obamacare led Bee to the discovery that Medicare has spent approximately $172 million dollars on penis pumps.
Apparently, the government spends about $300 a pop on the devices, designed to counteract erectile dysfunction. Ilyse Hogue, president of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, told Bee of the absurd spending in an interview for the segment.
As The Atlantic Wire notes, Bee satirizes the inconsistency gloriously.
"These are hard-working American penises, should we really be abandoning them at the end of their careers?" Bee asked.
While the elderly men of Congress might not care about the often medically-recommended contraceptives for young women concerned about pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, but they do seem to have some interest in treating erectile dysfunction.
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