Question : Why do health insurance providers cover penis pumps but not medically necessary procedures?
The Pos-T-Vac commercial is rampant these days and advertises that Medicare and other providers pay 100% of the cost. It’s a penis pump and makes no allusion to its intended purpose in the commercial. However, medical insurance won’t cover many “necessary” procedures or will only partially provide payment. Since when is the ability to have a hard-on more medically important than the ability to have a healthy heart, fully functional brain, or ability to use your appendages without prosthetics?
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Answer by librachic1988
I think it all has to deal with cost. A major surgery can cost anywhere from 10,000 – well into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. While a penis pump costs about 200 for the most expensive one I have ever seen. Although many Americans see it as more important to have a functioning and healthy body, a small handful of people see sex as being more important than anything and see it as a so called “fix all.”

Even though they provide this product and fully cover it, there is no guarantee it will work and many times they have to be replaced after a period of time. While a person with a needing a surgery would not care as much if it “didn’t work” as long as they are going to be healthy in the long run. The insurance company is more worried about there bottom line.

So in the end like most things it all comes down to greed. Spend a couple hundred bucks on a pump or 200,000 on a heart surgery. Even though a “hard on” is not “necessary” many men (I am only speculating this) would feel less of a man if they did not have full function of their penis.

I personally think that this is not right though. A person deserves a heart operation to be completely covered as opposed to a pump that is not even necessary.