tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008037633121035579.post3176655969681975204..comments2023-10-22T11:57:34.718+01:00Comments on A Pint of Unionist Lite: "What is going to kick start this election?"O'Neillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02531858236570346203noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008037633121035579.post-69735082965067695192011-04-14T16:27:13.401+01:002011-04-14T16:27:13.401+01:00Yes Alwyn, only some long term illnesses, (my asth...Yes Alwyn, only some long term illnesses, (my asthma isn't covered for example). More seriously, long term cancer patients and the like have to pay for their genuinely life-saving drugs.<br /><br />And of course they are now also reducing the amount being prescribed so that more prescriptions need to be bought at the new more expensive charge.<br /><br />(WV "dosest" - I kid you Wildgoosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595915411975940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008037633121035579.post-25646196953531356572011-04-14T07:40:13.825+01:002011-04-14T07:40:13.825+01:00Alwyn
Fair point although as I did said last week...Alwyn<br /><br />Fair point although as I did said last week, I don't think manifesto promises or claims are created to be taken as the gospel, more as a kind of glossy PR.<br /><br />It's the ideologiocal side of this one which I find shakey.O'Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02531858236570346203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008037633121035579.post-51966118931064238972011-04-13T21:48:18.327+01:002011-04-13T21:48:18.327+01:00"We've introduced free prescriptions for ..."We've introduced free prescriptions for everyone in Northern Ireland- they're not available in England"<br /><br />It might be pedantic, but the claim that free prescriptions are not available in England is also wrong. Free prescriptions are available in England to children, over 60s, people with some long term illnesses, people on low incomes and other groups.Alwyn ap Huwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06194724336424525283noreply@blogger.com