The Only Chemist in the Village
It’s the latest socialized medicine success!
Tens of thousands of English patients could be registering with Welsh GPs and making day-trips to the country to obtain free prescriptions, it was claimed yesterday.
Statistics show that three million people are registered with Welsh GPs, about 100,000 more than the official population. Wales is the only part of Britain not to have prescription charges.
England has the highest at £7.10, followed by Northern Ireland at £6.85 and Scotland at £5.
The Conservative Party in Wales claimed that the figures pointed to patients from England travelling to Wales and called on the Welsh Assembly executive to stop “prescription tourism”.
The copay in Englad is roughly the same as the prescription copay that I have with my eeeeeevil kapitalist for-profit US health insurance. The only difference is that I have access to a wider range of newer, higher-quality drugs than the English. And I don’t have to travel to Wales to avoid paying for it.
Oh, lest anyone get the wrong idea, I live in Beijing. I pay, every month, out of my own pocket, for US healthcare, so that I can get prescriptions which are not available here in China’s socialist paradise. Funny how that works, isn’t it? When I want something I (gasp!) pay for it.
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People not profits!!! :)