"polygonum" wrote in message
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On 15/02/2013 09:47, Nightjar wrote:
On 15/02/2013 09:12, polygonum wrote:
On 15/02/2013 09:08, Nightjar wrote:
On 15/02/2013 08:14, RJH wrote:

And anecdotally at
least people don't use prescription medicine because of the cost.

I would have thought that the majority of people for whom that would be
a problem should qualify for free prescriptions.


Majority maybe, but IIRC, Jobseekers flat rate does not, but
income-related does - and there are many cracks in the systems.

My point is that there is probably not a huge number of people waiting
in the wings who would suddenly start to get prescriptions were they to
be made free.

I agree that there is unlikely to be a sudden upswing. Though maybe over
time there would be more?

Yeah, there will always be some fools that demand
a prescription for stuff like the common cold.

Makes no sense for the state to be paying for that.