I understand prescription charges are already abolished in Wales and now Scotland looks to be moving the same way. Link here-

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7127997.stm

 

 

What do English people think about this? Any sign of Westminster following suit?

Edited December 5, 200717 yr by Jupiter9

To be honest its about time to do away with the prescription charges, it feels right if Wales and Scotland are scrapping the idea, they should do the same with the TV licence, but that's another different matter altogether

You'll get a free TV licence when you hit 75 Mikey. Not long now.

To be honest its about time to do away with the prescription charges, it feels right if Wales and Scotland are scrapping the idea, they should do the same with the TV licence, but that's another different matter altogether

What, so that BBC programmes have to be interrupted every 10 minutes for 4 minutes of adverts? No thankyou.

SNP promised immediate abolishment, yet now we are being told they will be reduced and scrapped just b4 the next election :o

 

serves u dumbarses right for voting in a bunch of inbred morons

I'm not aware of any other major party having abolition (or even reduction) in its manifesto. So why would anyone prefer parties who supported the status quo (ie prescription fees to remain) to a party bringing in gradual abolition? Your argument seems very flawed. Unless of course you disagree with the abolition of prescription fees altogether? The last Labour/Lib Dem coalition considered abolition of prescription fees but decided against it.

 

 

Oh and thanks for calling me a dumbarse by the way. All I know is from April I'm going to pay £5 for my prescriptions instead of £6.85. I don't see where I'm losing out. If I'd voted Labour I'd still be paying £6.85. And I'm the dumbarse? :wacko:

Edited December 5, 200717 yr by Jupiter9

Im not calling you a dumbarse, unless you did vote for SNP

 

then i kinda did.

 

they are yet too keep a promise. And the ones they have kept i.e. get rid of the tay/forth bridge tolls EVERY party in fife had on their manifesto.

I voted SNP. So yes, you have just called me a dumbarse. And you've also just called my family inbred. :arrr:

:P

are your family SNP members :unsure:

 

sorry. the one's local 2 me are certainly inbred tossers who know nothing about, well, anything.

 

but they won in the scummy areas of fife coz of the "independence factor"

are your family SNP members :unsure:

 

 

Yes. Uncle John and his wife and sister. Both of them are members. :naughty:

 

sorry :blush:

 

maybe i should have said in my experience

What, so that BBC programmes have to be interrupted every 10 minutes for 4 minutes of adverts? No thankyou.

 

couldnt agree more :)

I am against the principle of free prescriptions

 

I am in favour of them for the very poorest and the elderly but am against the idea of wealthy people and millionaires and high earning professional families getting free prescriptions, it should be the preserve of the very poorest and the shortfall in revenue from prescriptions going free will have to be made up from somewhere so old muggins here who pays 40% tax will pay even more so that millionaires can have free prescriptions, no thanks :)

 

Free prescriptions should be means tested to make sure they go only to the very poorest who might otherwise shun healthcare because they can't afford prescriptions

 

 

In terms of the BBC there would be no need for adverts

 

Companies could pay money to sponsor programs and also product placement within programs and that would make enough money to heavily cut the licence fee

 

For example instead of ads there would be at the opening credits and closing credits an announcement - Eastenders Bought To You By Cadburys, that could happen with every program, companies would pay a fortune to sponsor Eastenders, MOTD, SCD and so on and that would reduce the burden on the taxpayer and no need for ads

couldnt agree more :)

 

 

The BBC do advertise, instead of having adverts they advertise in the programs instead. So they are still advertising.

Free prescriptions??!!?? Pfft it'd never happen Down Under <_< Still wouldn't be a bad thing, with me barely affording my 21 pills a day as it is....

I'm not aware of any other major party having abolition (or even reduction) in its manifesto. So why would anyone prefer parties who supported the status quo (ie prescription fees to remain) to a party bringing in gradual abolition? Your argument seems very flawed. Unless of course you disagree with the abolition of prescription fees altogether? The last Labour/Lib Dem coalition considered abolition of prescription fees but decided against it.

Oh and thanks for calling me a dumbarse by the way. All I know is from April I'm going to pay £5 for my prescriptions instead of £6.85. I don't see where I'm losing out. If I'd voted Labour I'd still be paying £6.85. And I'm the dumbarse? :wacko:

 

I agree with the SNP's policy on reducing prescription charges....

 

...I also very much agreed their re-regulation of Scotland's buses, pity they dont anymore after getting that £500.000 cheque for their election campaign off of Stagecoach empresario Brian Soutar...... <_<

 

Not just Nu Labor who are guilty of receiving dodgy brown envelopes is it....?

 

I am against the principle of free prescriptions

 

I am in favour of them for the very poorest and the elderly but am against the idea of wealthy people and millionaires and high earning professional families getting free prescriptions, it should be the preserve of the very poorest and the shortfall in revenue from prescriptions going free will have to be made up from somewhere so old muggins here who pays 40% tax will pay even more so that millionaires can have free prescriptions, no thanks :)

 

Free prescriptions should be means tested to make sure they go only to the very poorest who might otherwise shun healthcare because they can't afford prescriptions

 

You could use this same argument to argue that more well-off people should have private medical insurance, I think either we have free universal healthcare for all, so gettimg rid of prescription charges should be phased in, I mean how many people just above the cut off point for free prescriptions can't afford them so do with out, and that can end up costing the government a lot more than the 6.85

You could use this same argument to argue that more well-off people should have private medical insurance, I think either we have free universal healthcare for all, so gettimg rid of prescription charges should be phased in, I mean how many people just above the cut off point for free prescriptions can't afford them so do with out, and that can end up costing the government a lot more than the 6.85

 

I think a figure should be set of household income less than £20,000 p/a so there is no reasonable excuse why a family over 20k a year can't afford to pay for their own medicines.

 

As for private medical insurance I do think that it should be compulsary for people over a certain income to pay for their own private health insurance, the NHS should be to me no more than a safety net for the poor and not a universal free for all, I would bring in tax breaks for the above average earners and wealthy people to take out private health insurance and just focus the NHS on providing a health safety net for the poor and the elderly

 

The NHS in its present form is not economically viable and is too expensive so making healthcare free for only the poorest people is a much better long term solution both to the exchequer and the tax payer but also for the sick as less people would be treated at NHS hospitals so shorter waiting times