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Junkies dont have to pay 50cent prescription charge

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  • #52
    ebixa82
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,289 ✭✭✭ebixa82


    This levy was not introduced to make money by means of the 50c per item charge. It is meant to disincentivise people from taking medicines which they don't need to for whatever reason..

    It was sickening to see how, when some old person died, that the family would bring in 1000's of euros of unused medicines which they stockpiled over the years. These drugs are automatically destroyed at the expense of the taxpayers. Hopefully this will reduce such costs..

    Methadone patients cost the state very little relative to other patients dependent on the state. If getting their methadone for free means they are not living a life of crime to pay for their heroin addiction then why not. Crime costs alot more than methadone treatment..


  • #53
    ebixa82
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,289 ✭✭✭ebixa82


    bleg wrote: »
    Compliance issues are bad enough in this country without adding further obstacles. Over 60% of people over 70 years of age receive cardiovascular drugs in Ireland. These are drugs that have no discernible effect i.e. you don't feel lower blood pressure or reduced cholesterol. The long term effects of patients ceasing to take these meds are disastrous and are a far far higher financial burden on the state than the cost of the medication.

    It's about 2 million a month, however the Department of Health's own advisory group said that the money raised will not justify the administration.

    The cap on a family is 10e per month. If people are so stupid or scabby not to take a drug for their BP or cholesterol in order to save 50c then off with them. Nobody in this country is that poor and that is a fact. Scabby yes perhaps, poor no...

    The IPU were going on about how the most vulnerable will be those affected. If someone was so poor that they couldn't afford a few euros per month then they would be homeless.

    And homeless still get theirs for free!


  • #54
    Doneg Al
    Closed Accounts Posts: 45 ✭Doneg Al


    mink_man wrote: »
    news to me that anyone on the dole is a junkie now.

    Yeah you walk in to the social welfare office and it's pretty much like a Jim Morrison wet dream.


  • #55
    Chaotic_Forces
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,659 ✭✭✭Chaotic_Forces


    Doneg Al wrote: »
    Yeah you walk in to the social welfare office and it's pretty much like a Jim Morrison wet dream.

    If only all the dole heads knew a dealer; we'd actually live up to the sterotype. :D


  • #56
    Kurtosis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Kurtosis


    ebixa82 wrote: »
    The IPU were going on about how the most vulnerable will be those affected. If someone was so poor that they couldn't afford a few euros per month then they would be homeless.

    And homeless still get theirs for free!

    Not true.

    "What are the arrangements for the homeless?

    Homeless persons living in a residential setting will have the charge paid on their behalf by the provider of the accommodation who will make the necessary arrangements for collection of the charge from the residents.

    Homeless persons not living in a residential setting, and with their own medical card, will pay the prescription charge."

    http://www.hse.ie/go/50c/


  • #57
    ebixa82
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,289 ✭✭✭ebixa82


    penguin88 wrote: »
    Not true.

    "What are the arrangements for the homeless?

    Homeless persons living in a residential setting will have the charge paid on their behalf by the provider of the accommodation who will make the necessary arrangements for collection of the charge from the residents.

    Homeless persons not living in a residential setting, and with their own medical card, will pay the prescription charge."

    http://www.hse.ie/go/50c/

    I stand corrected. Still I don't think there is one person in this country who couldn't find a max. of 2.50€ per week to pay for their medicines.


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