> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 12:47:48 -0000
> Organization: South West Information Service
> Subject: Re: Welfare review- ?prescrip
> From: [log in to unmask] (Adrian Midgley)
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> about "Re: Welfare review- ?prescrip":
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> >From: [log in to unmask]
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> >Subject: Re: Welfare review- ?prescription charges?
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> >Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 21:36:57 +0000
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> >I think one of the problems with the current system is that if you
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> >fall into one of the medical catergories for free prescriptions, then
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> >all your prescriptions are free.
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> >Perhaps better would be that the drugs in the particular class *only*
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> >should be free eg free thyroxine, but you have to pay for everything
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> >else, if otherwise you don't qualify for free prescriptions because
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> >of "poverty".
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> >
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> >Dr David J Plews
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> Indeed.
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> And it would be considerably easier to administer and
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> police because instead of having to work out or prove
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> whether somebody was in an exempt category one would
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> merely, automatically off the pharmacy database no doubt,
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> look up the status of the drug.
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> Fraud and work cut at a stroke.
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> Next problem!.....<<g>
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> --- OffRoad 1.9r registered to Adrian Midgley
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How to get rid of these
carriage return/line feeds.
Yes, I've noticed that this happens to some other list members :-(
Dr David J Plews
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