Feeling scammed (Prescriptions)

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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i think you have some valid points ,the only issue is sentence 4 but if that's meant to be the ones that play the system not the genuine needy i can see what you are getting at
 
tres said:
It works both ways, if you have a £2000 medication prescribed, you will also pay £9.80.
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Exactly and if you get a prescription for paracetamol you be an idiot to use it...
If you are computer savvy just google your medication and if you can get it trust worthy online do so..... at your own risk.....
common sense helps save money.
If you're a moron get the prescription and don't buy rat poison off the internet.
 
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There’s a drug called Libmeldy that costs the NHS nearly £3m for 1 dose!

The most expensive medication I’ve ever had was when a surgeon accidentally cut my carotid artery and they had to reverse anticoagulation and induce clotting immediately. I can’t remember the name now but the doctor who administered it told me it cost £7000 per injection.
 
marinersfan said:
I'm asthmatic, incurable as far as I know.
I have to pay for mine.

My last lot was £30.
2 relievers.
1 preventer
1 course of prednisolone.
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My view is that asthma inhalers should be exempt for the nature of the things. Going to assume that you’re aware but a prepaid prescription sounds a good option in your case. £32 for three months, £114 for 12.

(im asthmatic too so my opinions above are purely selfish)
 
Efour said:
Exactly and if you get a prescription for paracetamol you be an idiot to use it...
If you are computer savvy just google your medication and if you can get it trust worthy online do so..... at your own risk.....
common sense helps save money.
If you're a moron get the prescription and don't buy rat poison off the internet.
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Right, if I was actually properly in need of whatever regularly then I would, I'm talking about the one time there's been something a doctor has said they'll stick through to the dispensary and I haven't had a clue what it was before I collected. I get a top end cap, charging £10 blankly when the value is so clearly lower just seems odd.
 
Zefan said:
Right, if I was actually properly in need of whatever regularly then I would, I'm talking about the one time there's been something a doctor has said they'll stick through to the dispensary and I haven't had a clue what it was before I collected. I get a top end cap, charging £10 blankly when the value is so clearly lower just seems odd.
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I wasn't aiming at you specifically..
But yeah that's silly. Profiteering from the pharmacist?
 
In Sweden the yearly medicine cap is about 2400kr equivalent to the 12 month certificate. That's about £180.
So the NHS UK market still gets a huge discount.
Also there's a set fee when you meet a healthcare professional I thinks it's 300sek. That's payable every appointment and that caps out at 2000kr I think... So your 7th trip is cheaper 8th free something like that....
 
Goodie said:
My view is that asthma inhalers should be exempt for the nature of the things. Going to assume that you’re aware but a prepaid prescription sounds a good option in your case. £32 for three months, £114 for 12.

(im asthmatic too so my opinions above are purely selfish)
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Agreed. In fact I'd go a step further and make them available OTC without a prescription.

I have very mild asthma which is basically non-existent 99% of the time, but occasionally becomes quite bad when I get hayfever. It would be far easier to be able to go the pharmacy and buy one when needed, than having to sit in the walk-in centre struggling to breathe for 6 hours.

If I can buy paracetamol - just to cure mild pain - from the supermarket (which could quite easily kill me if I decide to take too many), then why can I not buy not a medication which is A) far safer, and B) literally potentially lifesaving from a pharmacy?
 
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Haggisman said:
Agreed. In fact I'd go a step further and make them available OTC without a prescription.

I have very mild asthma which is basically non-existent 99% of the time, but occasionally becomes quite bad when I get hayfever. It would be far easier to be able to go the pharmacy and buy one when needed, than having to sit in the walk-in centre struggling to breathe for 6 hours.

If I can buy paracetamol - just to cure mild pain - from the supermarket (which could quite easily kill me if I decide to take too many), then why can I not buy not a medication which is A) far safer, and B) literally potentially lifesaving from a pharmacy?
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Probably because the ones that help during a flare-up contain a steroid that if overused can leave scar tissue within your system.
 
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