Life, Liberty, and Erectile Dysfunction Treatment?
Teachers in Milwaukee have been arguing for their right not to buy Cialis, but to have Cialis bought for them by their union’s health coverage. Given that it’s a union, given that they’re teachers, given that it’s health care, and given that it’s erectile dysfunction, the news has been having a field day, and everyone capable of piping up about it has been making as much political hay of this Cialis scandal as possible. Let’s peer through the rabble and see whether or not these teachers ought to buy Cialis for themselves, shall we?
The whole mess began in 2005, when the school board decided to exclude erectile dysfunction treatments from its offered health coverage in an effort to save money. Two years ago, the teachers union filed suit against the school board, saying that this exclusion discriminates against its male employees, treating erectile dysfunction as anything but a serious medical condition that severely affects the lives of its sufferers. The union has made an estimate that it would cost about $760,000 every year to allow the coverage. A state representative, upon hearing the estimate, was heard to remark “you’ve got to be kidding me”. It’s the oldest battle in the bureaucratic book: the cash-strapped institution versus the simple requests of its employees.
At the heart of this issue is whether or not erectile dysfunction is a serious condition or not. The teachers union is arguing that it is, the school board is arguing that it isn’t, or at least isn’t worth spending money on. The school board, in their decision to not buy Cialis for its employees, claimed that such pills were “drugs for lifestyle enhancement and performance”. Is correcting the inability to achieve and maintain an erection a “lifestyle enhancement”? I would imagine any man who has suffered from erectile dysfunction would say that treating it is absolutely not a lifestyle choice, but a simple, clear-cut remedy for a debilitating medical condition.
Erectile dysfunction goes further than a simple lack of sex. A clinically depressed person will not be denied antidepressants by most health plans, but a person who is depressed because they are incapable of having sex will be denied erectile dysfunction treatments. Treating sex as entirely optional is a throwback to the stultifyingly Puritan heritage that politicians always invoke for cheap political points. It is the 21st century, and sex is an openly major part of everyone’s life, and a chronic, medical sexual dysfunction deserves to be treated as a medical problem, not some minor quibble of the swinger set.
Part of the reason drugs like Cialis (tadalafil) are so discriminated against is because they are new. Twenty years ago, they didn’t exist – now, anyone can buy Cialis online without a prescription. The school board would do well to update their appreciation of the modern medical landscape. It would do even better to buy Cialis online like the rest of us – they could bring down that price tag a whole lot too.
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