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Subject: Perhaps, but sanity is a relative term.

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Dave (UK)

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Date Posted: 16:48:15 12/03/04 Fri
In reply to: Nick (UK) 's message, "Are you crazy?" on 14:02:38 12/03/04 Fri

I agree with you in principle. However, in practice, things are different. My attack was on the current prescription fraud, rather than providing cheaper drugs to the long-term ill.

The first part of the communist ethos (from each, according to their means) is not being practiced here. Why should I, for example, expect the state to provide subsidised hay-fever tablets all summer, when I can well afford them myself?

We have an enormous problem in Britain with people who are addicted to prescription drugs. GPs are being inundated with habitual bogus patients who pester Doctors for repeat prescriptions of certain drugs. Some of these GPs routinely adhere to the requests, if only for an easy life.

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