Bill Clinton's spokesman Jim Kennedy refused to comment on Mrs. Clinton's decision to put the kibosh on her husband's Viagra giveaway, which was implemented in 1998 during the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

The New York Times, for instance, reported at the time:

"The Clinton Administration has told state officials that it intends to require their Medicaid programs to pay for medically approved uses of the impotence drug Viagra."

Chris Jennings, a Clinton health policy aide, told the paper that his instructions were: "If there is a medical rationale for using Viagra, it must be covered."

State officials were quick to express outrage over the Viagra mandate.

Then-Florida Governor Lawton Chiles complained: "Governors believe that Viagra should be a state option, not a mandate. A Viagra mandate would increase state costs and limit state flexibility."

But Clinton's Viagra giveaway went forward anyway, with taxpayers footing the bill for hundreds of millions of dollars in expenses.

If left in place, the Clinton Viagra plan is expected to cost taxpayers $2 billion over the next 10 years, according to the New York Post - an expense that didn't come to light until this week, when reports surfaced that convicted sex offenders were taking advantage of the program.

Though Sen. Clinton now objects to her husband's Viagra mandate, there's no record that she voiced any complaints about the program when she was first lady.

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