GM spends $17m/yr on boner pills.

[url=http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/04/gm_viagra.html]GM Spends $17 Million Per Year on Viagra[/url]

[quote] [B]Lifestyle drugs -- chiefly Viagra -- are costing General Motors $17 million dollars a year[/B] and the cost is passed along to car, truck and SUV consumers. The blue pill is covered under GM's labor agreement with United Auto Workers, as well as benefit plans for salaried employees.

GM executives estimate [B]health care adds $1,500 to the price of each vehicle[/B] but they do not break out how much of the premium is caused by erectile dysfunction expenses. [B]GM provides health care for 1.1 million employees, retirees and dependents and is the world's largest private purchaser of Viagra.[/B]

GM recently raised the co-pay for erectile dysfunction drugs to $18 under a new agreement with the UAW and the company has also pared benefits for salaried workers.

[B]The automaker spends almost $5.6 billion each year on health care.[/B] While lifestyle drugs are a small fraction of the total medical bill, every health care expense is added into the price of every new vehicle and is a drag on the struggling goliath's earnings.

Given the large number of aging autoworkers in the U.S., the industry�s Viagra tab and bill for other erectile dysfunction drugs is certain to continue rising.

Neither Ford nor Chrysler will disclose the amount spent on erectile dysfunction drugs.

While many government and company health plans have eliminated impotence drugs from coverage plans, [B]GM has more than two retirees for every active worker on its rolls[/B] and must negotiate eliminating the drugs from the union health plan with the UAW.[/quote]

Kill the UAW. Seriously.

lulz were had

well thats embarrassing on a whole heap of levels

** grins thinking: "only in america" and tries to find the bottle wodka again **

I dont think ED pills are very good for ex-GMers, I would bet a lot of them are overweight have high cholesterol, and high blood pressure. IIRC Viagra raises blood pressure so pensioners willl start having heart attacks at a mile a minute.

Wait a sec...
GM's problems are solved! Give every ex-worker a whole lotta ED pills and hope they die.
If that fails, company holiday to New Guinea so everybody can get Kuru.

Step 1: ED pills and hookers
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!

Unions may be good in certain industries, but certainly not this one.

That's ironic.

No wonder the industry is having such hard times.

[quote=Dino Scuderia;848365]No wonder the industry is having such hard times.[/quote]


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"Boner Pills."

lol.

lmao at the hard time comment.

I agree down with the uaw!

Epic thread. Thank you.

Further proof that universal healthcare is bad. If the US had it, then companies would not have to pay as much for healthcare and would be richer! Who would want that? It is clearly a socialist plot.

[QUOTE=Kitdy;848380]Further proof that universal healthcare is bad. If the US had it, then companies would not have to pay as much for healthcare and would be richer! Who would want that? It is clearly a socialist plot.[/QUOTE]

Not only would they be richer, but they'd actually be able to survive a global economic downturn and not put millions of people out of work and generally screw them up! Where's the benefit in that!?