The government is one of those necessary evils. Nobody likes being told what to do, but we do like working street lights and not being eaten by our fellow humans, so it's important to have a governing infrastructure in place. However, the government is terrible at other aspects of its job, most notably the "not spending money like a goddamn lunatic" aspect. The people tasked with running our country have wasted so much money over the years on so many stupid things, it's amazing there's anything left to spend (or, it would be amazing, if the government didn't print its own money, which is probably part of the problem).

7 Penis Pumps Cost Medicare Double The Market Price

Arkansas Health Care Access Foundation

Before those magic blue pills burst onto the scene, penis pumps were the only real option for men who required a bit of assistance to get up to get down. Sex, it is well known, sells, which is why companies set the price tag super high for these coveted devices.

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Regardless of what country you buy them in, the instructions are always in German.

But after the introduction of the far more subtle pills, the manufacturers of these pumps dropped their prices drastically. A development which Medicare promptly ignored, continuing to shell out payments for the pumps based on the previous fee schedules. This was ultimately more than twice as much as the market price, leading to 14 million wasted dollars a year.

Eventually someone found out about it, and the government cut penis pumps from the Medicare program entirely. Some might say we never should have been paying for old people to have sex in the first place, but old people already have so little. Let them have their boners.