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See http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1115/medicalcard.html
She is concerned about over-prescribing, so she decides to charge medical card patients for prescriptions. If there is a problem with over-prescribing, she should be sorting this out immediately with the doctors, not getting those who can least afford it to pay (yet again). Prescription charges will not stop the over-prescribing problem.
If she needs to squeeze a few more quid out of the health budget, perhaps she should start at the top, and negotiate a decent deal with the consultant. Perhaps she should work out why my blood pressure medication is 10 times the price here in Ireland compared to the UK (and it is made in Cork). Perhaps she should be cutting the state subsidy to developers of new private hospitals and private sports injury clinics before she comes after medical card holders.
But most of all, she should be sorting out over-prescribing as a medical problem, not an economic problem.
She is concerned about over-prescribing, so she decides to charge medical card patients for prescriptions. If there is a problem with over-prescribing, she should be sorting this out immediately with the doctors, not getting those who can least afford it to pay (yet again). Prescription charges will not stop the over-prescribing problem.
If she needs to squeeze a few more quid out of the health budget, perhaps she should start at the top, and negotiate a decent deal with the consultant. Perhaps she should work out why my blood pressure medication is 10 times the price here in Ireland compared to the UK (and it is made in Cork). Perhaps she should be cutting the state subsidy to developers of new private hospitals and private sports injury clinics before she comes after medical card holders.
But most of all, she should be sorting out over-prescribing as a medical problem, not an economic problem.