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HSE reduces payments to wholesalers

  • 06-03-2008 6:50pm
    #1
    Sam Vimes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭


    i was reading in the metro this morning about the HSE's plans to reduce the amount they give to wholesalers of drugs on the medical card scheme. I also read a quote from our wonderful ms harney about it a few days ago

    ms harney was quoted as saying something along the lines of:
    people need not worry if pharmacies pull out of the medical card scheme, we'll still get people their drugs

    and in the metro a HSE official was quoted, referring to the reasons for the reductions as saying:
    the bottom line is people are paying too much for their drugs

    and i wanted three questions answered in the way only AH can provide:

    1. How does ms harney plan to introduce a brand new nationwide distribution system in a few months that will cost dramatically less than the current system?or was she simply lying?

    2. How in the name of god will reducing the subsidies on the drugs reduce the amount people pay for them?

    3. Why do we put up with this pack of gob****es running the country into the ground and endangering our health through penny pinching and mismanagement?


Comments

  • #2
    connundrum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭connundrum


    Sam Vimes wrote: »
    3. Why do we put up with this pack of gob****es running the country into the ground and endangering our health through penny pinching and mismanagement?

    We voted them in, or by not voting, allowed them to be voted in.

    Its all lies, mismanagement and arse covering. Until the HSE is not under the control of the sitting government, things will never change.


  • #3
    A P
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 382 ✭✭A P


    Does anybody really trust the HSE to provide a dispensing service of equal standard to that currently provided nationwide by community pharmacies? The pharmacists have agreed that the drug bill is too high, and are ready and willing to discuss ways of bringing it down, but the HSE seem hell-bent on destroying one of the only sectors of the health service that actually works efficiently. Muppets


  • #4
    EamonnKeane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 950 ✭✭✭EamonnKeane


    connundrum wrote: »
    We voted them in, or by not voting, allowed them to be voted in.
    No, they got in by cheating. The 96,900 people who voted for the Green Party thought they were voting against FF and the PDs: turns out they were actually voting for them.


  • #5
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    EamonnKeane wrote: »
    No, they got in by cheating. The 96,900 people who voted for the Green Party thought they were voting against FF and the PDs: turns out they were actually voting for them.

    Hah ha!

    /nelson



    The only thing the HSE can dispense efficiently is paper.


  • #6
    lostexpectation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭lostexpectation


    havnt heard from the wholesalers, > politcs forum


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