GM spending $17 Million a Year on Viagra

[GSR]

General Motors Spending $17 Million a Year on Viagra and Other "Lifestyle" Meds

Date posted: 04-17-2006
DETROIT — General Motors' spiraling health-care costs are a well-known problem area. Now, embarrassment is added to the list of its troubles as the Detroit News reports $17 million was spent last year for plan participants' "lifestyle drug" prescriptions. In fact, General Motors is the world's largest private buyer of Viagra, the paper says.

General Motors' total health-care expenses add up to $5.6 billion a year and cover 1.1 million workers, employees and their dependents, the paper reports. The co-pay on Viagra and other such medications is $18 according to GM's agreement with the United Auto Workers. The large number of retirees on the GM plan might be a partial explanation for the size of the Viagra bill.

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[griswold44]

I don't know whether I should be disgusted or laughing.

[TLCOR]

WTF! Is THAT where the money is going?

[oilissolastyear]

it must give them design inspiration

[camaro chris]

I knew G.M. had some problems, but I never thought they were like that!

[BrickTamland]

Mercedes must be buying Viagra, too. It is how they got the idea for the SLR Mclaren:

[genjy]

Viagra

[genjy]

Mercedes must be buying Viagra, too. It is how they got the idea for the SLR Mclaren:[/IMG]

No no

[tom3]

That's a dollar a car, sounds cheap to me, keep the old guys happy. But that's a lot of Viagra I'm thinking. They having orgies?

[jimmy03]

GM Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner announced today that GM will build an all-new version of the Chevrolet Camaro muscle car based on the award-winning concept that debuted at the Detroit auto show in January. The concept “ignited the passion of car enthusiasts around the world ever since,” the automaker says — even spurring consumers to start petition drives and send in certified checks in hopes of placing early deposits. The car will go on sale in the first quarter of 2009. New images after the jump…
Read complete story here..

http://www.leftlanenews.com/official...et-camaro.html

[Titanic]

And, so? It's a legitimate drug to correct a legitimate medical condition.

People, including the Edmund's author and the Detroit News, need to grow up. There's nothing sensational here.