Why? ( was FW: News Release : NEARLY 200 SEX OFFENDERS)

[Guest guest]

I know families that have had to fight tooth and nail to get some assitance for

their children or themselves through medicaid. So, why is it that these horrible

people are on it and then allowed to get this type of medication? This is

really bugging after I really started to think about it.

Marcye

Candis Firchau wrote:

Take the sex offenders off medicaid Abbott- simple

solution.

" This unconscionable practice must stop and I

> am calling on Texas

> leaders to join with me in finding an immediate

> solution. "

I just called the Attorney General and said " Felons

should not receive medicaid " Afterall, they can't get

Pell grants!

Candis

--- Marcye wrote:

> This is just unreal! I have to fight with the

> pharmacy and medicaid to get Jessies Prozac filled

> half the time because they will only pay for certain

> manufactuers. With the schedule that my husband

> works and the life we live with a child with ASD we

> must use Walgreens to get his meds as they are open

> 24hrs so we can get to his meds at any time. But

> they will pay for this! It is unreal just truely

> unreal.

>

> Marcye

>

> Tonya Hettler wrote:

> This came from the Attorney General Mailing list.

> Tonya

> News Release : NEARLY 200 SEX OFFENDERS

> RECEIVE TAXPAYER-FUNDED

> VIAGRA, ATTORNEY GENERAL ABBOTT SAYS

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> Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott

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> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

> Tuesday, May 24, 2005

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> NEARLY 200 SEX OFFENDERS RECEIVE TAXPAYER-FUNDED

> VIAGRA, ATTORNEY

> GENERAL ABBOTT SAYS

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> Abbott calls for immediate action to stop predators

> from receiving

> sex-enhancing drugs

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> AUSTIN - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today

> announced results of

> an initial investigation that nearly 200 registered

> sex offenders in

> Texas have obtained Viagra and other sex-enhancing

> drugs with Medicaid

> dollars. Abbott also called for immediate steps to

> prevent people on the

> registered sex offender list who are using taxpayer

> dollars to get

> erectile dysfunction drugs.

> " Giving Viagra to a convicted sex offender is akin

> to handing a can of

> gasoline to an arsonist and lighting the match, "

> Attorney General Abbott

> said. " This unconscionable practice must stop and I

> am calling on Texas

> leaders to join with me in finding an immediate

> solution. "

> In addition to the Attorney General's investigation,

> Abbott proposed a

> three-pronged approach, including:

> . calling on the Texas Health and Human Services

> Commission to change

> its Medicaid rules to prevent convicted sex

> offenders from obtaining

> taxpayer-funded prescriptions for Viagra and ot! her

> sexual enhancing

> drugs;

> . requiring as a condition of probation and parole

> that registered sex

> offenders not use taxpayer dollars to obtain

> sex-enhancing drugs; and

> . asking the Legislature to pass legislation that

> would prohibit

> convicted sex offenders from receiving any type of

> sex-enhancing

> medication

> Attorney General Abbott has made fighting child sex

> crimes a top

> priority in his administration. His Fugitive and

> Cyber Crimes units have

> arrested more than 240 child sex predators since he

> created the units in

> 2003. The Fugitive Unit works to pinpoint and arrest

> convicted child sex

> offenders who have violated parole and could be

> stalking children. Cyber

> Crimes investigators assume the identity of underage

> teens in Internet

> chat rooms, which often leads to child predators

> soliciting them for sex

> online and then attempting to meet them. Predators

> agree to meet the

> person they think is a child, but are surprised to

> find out the " child "

> is actually a Cyber Crimes investigator.

> To find out more about Attorney General Abbott's

> efforts to crack down

> on sexual predators, visit the Attorney General's

> Web site at

> www.oag.state.tx.us or call .

> Attorney General Abbott's announcement comes amid

> reports that confusion

> over a federal directive apparently resulted in

> Medicaid-paid Viagra for

> sex offenders in other states. The federal Centers

> for Medicare &

> Medicaid Services on Monday began notifying all 50

> states that they are

> not required to offer Medicaid-funded Viagra to sex

> offenders.

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