<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:18pt"><div><span>A great side effect of Viagra is it does keep men from <span id="misspell-0"><span>accidentally</span></span> rolling out of bed onto the floor at night. . .well, at least most of them.</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>General <span id="misspell-1"><span>Douglas MacArthur </span></span>once said that"Old soldiers never die, they just fade away." Not true anymore, now they can keep standing at attention. </span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Donovan Arnold</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);
height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, January 11, 2012 3:22 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Vision2020] And for Us Oldster Vets . . .<br> </font> </div> <br>
<div id="yiv26198591"><div><div></div><div>As I seek to spice up my golden years . . .</div><div> </div><div>"Doc, I jus' can't get it up any more. Perhaps Tri-Care can provide me a cure," Tom Hansen inquires of Dr. Jones while glancing at the Viagra on the pharmacy shelf.</div><div><br></div><div>"Look at it this way, Tom. What can't get up, can't get out," responds Dr. Jones decisively.</div><div><br></div><div>---------</div><div><br></div><div>Courtesy of the Army Times at:</div><div><br></div><div>http://www.ArmyTimes.com</div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" class="yiv26198591Apple-style-span"><h2 style="border-width: 0px; font: 26px/normal Georgia, Times, serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); display: inline; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">Viagra may soon
be back on Tricare formulary</h2><br style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 16px/normal Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(136, 153, 102); display: block; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" class="yiv26198591subtitle"></div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); font-size: 11px; display: block;" class="yiv26198591info">By <a style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" href="mailto:pkime@militarytimes.com?subject=Question%20from%20ArmyTimes.com%20reader" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:pkime@militarytimes.com?subject=Question%20from%20ArmyTimes.com%20reader">Patricia Kime</a> - Staff writer<br></div><form style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" id="yiv26198591hidden"
target="_blank"></form><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.35em;">Pfizer’s little blue pill for erectile dysfunction could get a whole lot cheaper for military men and retirees in the Pentagon’s health system.</div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.35em;">On Thursday, Tricare’s Uniform Formulary Beneficiary Advisory Panel will consider a proposal to drop Bayer’s Levitra and Staxyn, currently the only erectile dysfunction pills in Tricare’s formulary, and add Viagra.</div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.35em;">The recommendation, made by the Defense Department’s Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, is based on cost-effectiveness as well as clinical considerations, according to information provided to the advisory panel.</div><div
style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.35em;">The committee said the Pentagon and Veterans Affairs Department issued a joint solicitation for erectile dysfunction medications and Viagra was the contract winner.</div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.35em;">If the panel approves the recommendation, the changes would take place “the first Wednesday after the start of a 60-day implementation period,” according to the committee.</div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.35em;">Those affected by the change would be notified by mail, according to the Pentagon.</div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.35em;">The approval would end a six-year hiatus for Viagra in the Tricare formulary. It was stocked
by military pharmacies and offered for low cost shares to military beneficiaries until October 2005, when it was dropped as part of an effort to “provide the highest quality medications to beneficiaries while reducing overall costs,” a senior defense official said.</div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.35em;">Viagra would be available to those who have a valid prescription and are over age 40, according to information provided to the panel.</div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.35em;">Other eligible users would include patients under 40 being treated with medication that causes dysfunction, patients who have had their prostate removed and are suffering from erectile dysfunction, and other conditions.</div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height:
1.35em;">About 18 million American men suffer from erectile dysfunction, according to a study published in the American Journal of Medicine. Physical causes include heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes as well as tobacco and heavy alcohol use; psychological causes include depression, anxiety, stress and fatigue.</div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.35em;">If Viagra enters the formulary, users would pay $9 for a 90-day supply through Tricare’s mail order pharmacy and $12 at retail pharmacies for a 30-day supply.</div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.35em;">The drug would be dispensed free at military pharmacies.</div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.35em;">Cialis and Levitra, which would become non-formulary, would cost $25 both at
retail pharmacies and through the mail.</div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.35em;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17px;" class="yiv26198591Apple-style-span">------------------------------</span><br></div><div style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.35em;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17px;" class="yiv26198591Apple-style-span">Seeya later, Moscow.</span><br></div></span><div><br></div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Spokane, Washington</div><div><br></div><div>"If not us, who?</div><div>If not now, when?"</div><div><br></div><div>- Unknown</div></div></div></div><br>=======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet,<br> serving the communities of the
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