Feeling scammed (Prescriptions)

I’m asthmatic in England and we still pay for prescriptions even though 4 people die on average every day from asthma. I have 39 prescriptions on daily medication and another 10-12 per year for oral steroids, antibiotics, antidepressants etc. Prescriptions are £9.90 each and season ticket is £114 a year - payable over 10 months.

If I paid for each item I would be £400 worse off per year
 
mate... I've been in and out of hospitals and cinics for scans and tests for abdominal pains.
it was that bad one day, I had to call an ambulance....

the cost of prescriptions is heavily subsidised in England... the first walk in hospital I went to, I was was seen by the duty nurse who couldn't give me any prescriptions but recommended a load of meds that I could get over the counter to use while I wait for a GP appointment.

one of the meds was Buscopan 40 tables for a tenner... the GP wrote me up a prescriptions for them a week later 118 tabets for whatever the cost of a prescription was...

anyway I guess you couldn't be in that much pain if you can moan about the cost, personally I would have empty out my accounts at the time to get the pain to go away.

Yeb it would have been free if I was on dole but at the same time I won't have my work's private medical care if I wasn't working.
 
That is the least of the worries at the moment, try getting an ambulance when your on the floor having a heart attack and hope your still alive by the time they turn up long after you phoned them. And if you are alive, hope they even have a bed for you.
 
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I feel scammed. Asthma so medication for life which I need to pay for. Missus needs thyroid meds for life - she then gets all meds free? Asthma prescriptions should be free and any meds for life should be free - not the person getting free meds for life.
 
I'm sure I read about a school of thought (and it might be related to them becomming free in Scotland) that because the folk that need the most medications are generally exempt anyway, and anyone else who needs a fair amount can save a lot of the costs by getting a prepayment certificate so really the only folk paying full rate are those who need an occasionaly dose of antibotics, etc and that all in all most of the frees taken in it are taken up with adminstration of the whole thing so the actual cost of changing to free for everyone would actually not be that onerous.
 
Resident said:
*** Hope this doesn't constitute a medical thread, not going to be discussing medical issues, just how backwards society seems ***


Is it wrong to feel agreived and even scammed regarding prescriptions.

Just been to the docs for abdominal pains, prescribed 2 lot of antibiotics (due to allergies) & paid the princely sum of £20 because I work.

Yet if I were a dole squatting, oxygen theiving, resource drain on society, they'd have been free.

Surely that's backwards? I pay thousands a year in taxes to pay for healthcare services already, shouldn't I be the one recieving "free" medication having techinically already paid for it?
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You get cheap medication and are working and begrudge people not working getting it free?

Stop stressing and you may have less visits to the GP.
 
Resident said:
Yet if I were a dole squatting, oxygen theiving, resource drain on society, they'd have been free.
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Ah yes, the cheeky chaps, sitting at home all unemployed scheming about how to get their next prescription for free, really sticking it to the man.


Jesus wept, that's one of the dumbest things I've read on these forums, and Nasher posts on here.
 
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