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Whats going on with the Medical Cards?

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  • 17-11-2007 11:27pm
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    zexstream
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    I have just read a advert in the Galway advertiser in regards to a threat to medical card holders in the Galway area.

    Im not sure if it is just Galway or the country as a whole, but the fallout from this could mean many families being denied medicine for free using their medical cards.

    The Advert was placed by a group calling themselves the concerned pharmacists of Galway City and County.

    In the Advert they say;

    "Concerned pharmacists in Galway city and county wish to clarify the current situation and certain misleading statements made by the HSE in recent weeks:

    From 1st December the H.S.E will unilaterally break the terms of the pharmacist contract by paying only 92% of the wholesale price of all medicines dispensed under state schemes. e.g if an item cost pharmacists €100 the H.S.E will only pay €92.

    76% of items dispensed under these state schemes are currently given out at wholesale cost plus a fee of €3.26. Even the HSE agrees that this is unsustainable.

    if the H.S.E follows through with its proposal to pay pharmacists less than the wholesale cost price, the viability of many schemes e.g. medical card may be threatened.

    The H.S.E is denying pharmacists their basic civil right of being represented by their trade union the IPU.

    THE ABOVE MEANS YOUR SERVICE FROM YOUR PHARMACY IS BEING THREATENED BY THE H.S.E`S ACTIONS."
    http://editions.pagesuite.co.uk//PageSuite3.aspx?page=1&scale=100&height=700&width=1000&editionid=40930&filekey=&path=_PSEDitions/Galway%20Advertiser/Galway%20Advertiser/2007-11-15/



    Why hasnt there been more press coverage on this? How can the government allow many thousands of low paid families the possability of having to pay for medications that could be vital.

    Maybe Bertie should stop giving himself payrises for a failing HSE.


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