{"id":16334,"date":"2012-04-27T12:29:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T16:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=16334"},"modified":"2012-04-27T12:29:06","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T16:29:06","slug":"no-more-free-viagra-for-the-canadian-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/no-more-free-viagra-for-the-canadian-military\/","title":{"rendered":"No more free Viagra for the Canadian military"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the CBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n

There could soon be less spring in the step of those at National Defence as the department considers halting the decade-old practice of distributing free Viagra to the troops.<\/p>\n

Also under consideration is the cancellation of taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery for members of the military.<\/p>\n

[\u2026.]<\/p>\n

Within government, officials have expressed concern for years about the rising cost of the wildly popular Viagra program, which saw members limited to six of the little blue pills a month \u2014 at a cost of between $15 and $22 per pill.<\/p>\n

The drug is used to treat erectile dysfunction in men.<\/p>\n

When introduced in 2000, the government justified supplying the prescription wonder drug to troops as a health policy meant to ensure all soldiers were mentally fit and ready for the battlefield.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I can certainly see the reason for our military \u2013 and I am trying to empathise<\/a> here \u2013 wanting to maintain a steady flow of free Viagra.<\/p>\n

After all, a bunch of wimps with erectile dysfunction could hardly sally forth into battle crying this with much conviction, could they?<\/p>\n

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
\nOr close the wall up with our English dead.
\nIn peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
\nAs modest stillness and humility:
\nBut when the blast of war blows in our ears,
\nThen imitate the action of the tiger;
\nStiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
\nDisguise fair nature with hard-favour’d rage;
\nThen lend the eye a terrible aspect;
\nLet pry through the portage of the head
\nLike the brass cannon; let the brow o’erwhelm it
\nAs fearfully as doth a galled rock
\nO’erhang and jutty his confounded base,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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