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Originally Posted by lindsay ormerod
Prescriptions should be free, full stop. Milk tokens/healthy start vouchers should be given to every family not just those on benefits because every child deserves a "healthy start". Incontinence aids and sanitary protection should be free, I could go on, it will get me nowhere, but I see the system being abused regularly from my position and it annoys me no end that little old dears are having to pay for their Tena lady (£7 a pack) from their meagre pensions and serial offenders with 5 kids come in scrounging everything they can get on minor ailments schemes and trying to use their milk tokens to buy nappies.......  |
I've always said that linds, its like a tax on the sick, but I would suggest that anybody who has not got a prescribed disease which entitles them to free prescriptions, but are on medication for the rest of their lives gust to control there health problems, I would advise them to apply for an exemption certificate from the community health council, I did and got one, many years ago, and was advised to do so by my GP