Cash strapped families will turn to the internet to buy expensive medication.

Run_to_da_hills

Cash strapped families could turn to the internet to buy expensive medication for their elderly folk to save money if Brian Cowen dose not back down on his decision on the medical card issue.

Many prescribed drugs are up to 75% cheaper in countries like Spain and Eastern Europe. Pensioners that are on a regular prescription of heart and blood coagulating drugs such as warferin may be tempted to get their families to purchase these drugs by mail order. Buying any prescription medication without a prescription is Illegal, dangerous and could result in death or other terminal effects.

Biggins

Expect Canada then to make money from us then.
The Americans already are crossing the border to buy Canada's drugs.

b0bsquish

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Illegal, dangerous and could result in death or other terminal effects.

Unlike not being able to afford the meds in the first place..which will also result in death or terminal effects (can someone explain the difference between death and a terminal effect to me in typical AH fashion?)kthxbye

kaimera

Well I never....people buying cheaper goods on the internet eh?

hussey

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Cash strapped families could turn to the internet to buy expensive medication for their elderly folk to save money if Brian Cowen dose not back down on his decision on the medical card issue.

Many prescribed drugs are up to 75% cheaper in countries like Spain and Eastern Europe. Pensioners that are on a regular prescription of heart and blood coagulating drugs such as warferin may be tempted to get their families to purchase these drugs by mail order. Buying any prescription medication without a prescription is Illegal, dangerous and could result in death or other terminal effects.

People could also eat their children to save money on meat products.

Anyway I got an email from a guy selling Viagra, if anyone wants to satisfy their women 24/7 I'll pm ya him email address

thelordofcheese

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

death or other terminal effects.

ENGLISH, MOTHERFUCKER! DO. YOU. SPEAK. IT?

seclachi

What the hell, dont people know there is more than just one medical scheme out there ? Namely the Drugs payment scheme, it caps the cost of drugs at 90€ a month. Now before you say thats too much for somebody on an old age pension, then surely the means test will entitle them to the medical card anyway. So no, grampa wont have to get his viagra from the internet, or lipator. We arent the US yet, you dont have to prise open your wallet on your deathbed so somebody can actually help you.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Cash strapped families could turn to the internet to buy expensive medication for their elderly folk to save money if Brian Cowen dose not back down on his decision on the medical card issue.

Many prescribed drugs are up to 75% cheaper in countries like Spain and Eastern Europe. Pensioners that are on a regular prescription of heart and blood coagulating drugs such as warferin may be tempted to get their families to purchase these drugs by mail order. Buying any prescription medication without a prescription is Illegal, dangerous and could result in death or other terminal effects.

Do you consider it a day wasted unless you start a rabble-rousing anti-government thread or something? I'm sure there are many more appropritate forums for your own special brand of lunacy.

Mark200

The mother of one of my friends (Polish) is going to Hungary to visit a denist.

Apparently the cost, including flights, is cheaper. Weirdest thing ever.

She'll probably end up in a wet basement in front of an old guy holding pliers.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

thelordofcheese wrote: »

ENGLISH MOTHERFUCKER, DO. YOU. SPEAK. IT?

I didn't know RTDH was English. Don't think he'd be the sort to work in I.T. though.

thelordofcheese

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

I didn't know RTDH was English. Don't think he'd be the sort to work in I.T. though.

pedant.


(and fix'd)

Run_to_da_hills

Iris Green Earphone wrote: »

Do you consider it a day wasted unless you start a rabble-rousing anti-government thread or something? I'm sure there are many more appropritate forums for your own special brand of lunacy.

I didn't vote for any of them :rolleyes:

Taxing the poor and hitting out at vulnerable takes the biscuit.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

thelordofcheese wrote: »

pedant.


(and fix'd)

Well, you WERE making the point about 'English'! Muphry's law strikes again...

120_Minutes

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

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RUUUUNN FOOOOOOOOORRR YOUR LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFE.

D-Generate

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Cash strapped families could turn to the internet to buy expensive medication for their elderly folk to save money if Brian Cowen dose not back down on his decision on the medical card issue.

Many prescribed drugs are up to 75% cheaper in countries like Spain and Eastern Europe. Pensioners that are on a regular prescription of heart and blood coagulating drugs such as warferin may be tempted to get their families to purchase these drugs by mail order. Buying any prescription medication without a prescription is Illegal, dangerous and could result in death or other terminal effects.

Yeah old folks should have a medical card. That way we can track them and keep a big ol' database of what drugs they need to live. Our first step towards a 1984 world! I endorse RTDH's tracking of old people plans. Lets put RFID tags on them too so we know how much they need to go piss a day.

thelordofcheese

D-Generate wrote: »

Yeah old folks should have a medical card. That way we can track them and keep a big ol' database of what drugs they need to live. Our first step towards a 1984 world! I endorse RTDH's tracking of old people plans. Lets put RFID tags on them too so we know how much they need to go piss a day.

heh, given you both have the same avatars i thought for a second that runny had finally cracked under the strain of his rampant paranoia and started arguing against himself.

Fighting Irish

If you have a medical card, can you go to the doc as much as you want?

Everytime you go with a medical card, does the doc get his €50 or whatever off the government?

seclachi

Fighting Irish wrote: »

If you have a medical card, can you go to the doc as much as you want?

Everytime you go with a medical card, does the doc get his €50 or whatever off the government?

Yes, and more yes. It entitles you to free medicines from you a pharmacy and other things such as visits to a dentist.

Let me intercept what I think you`ll say next, its 100% fair that to doctor gets paid by the goverment. They tried to pull on the pharmacy's recently where if somebody paid for drugs they would only pay 95% of the price, so basically a pharmacy would be **** out of luck if it had alot of medical card users.

ejmaztec

Send the sick people to Africa. According to those TV ads it only costs a few cent a week to get any kind of treatment and drugs.

Pharmaceutical companies are the biggest robbers on the planet, next to the oil-companies.

kaimera

ejmaztec wrote: »

Send the sick people to Africa. According to those TV ads it only costs a few cent a week to get any kind of treatment and drugs.

Pharmaceutical companies are the biggest robbers on the planet, next to the oil-companies.

Africa has enough sick people of their own that they can't take care of without ours being there.

Darragh29

For all the complaining, I'm not seeing a lot of protesting. 50 old folks outside Willie O' Dea's house won't change much!

kaimera

50 old folks outside Willie O' Dea's house won't change much!

50 less to complain later when pneumonia kicks in and does it's thing

ejmaztec

kaimera wrote: »

50 less to complain later when pneumonia kicks in and does it's thing

They should go somewhere nice and warm. :P

taidghbaby

ejmaztec wrote: »

They should go somewhere nice and warm. :P

like yore ma's.................ah i couldnt be arsed!!

anyway OT i thought everything on d'internet was fake??? placebos all round so!!

Redpunto

Its a whole lot of B*llix in all fairness, its causing undue stress on a hell of a lot of elderly people, sure i understand itd be means tested but if they have been gettin their visits to the GP and their meds free for the last so many years and now suddenly they could realistically having to find €150 a month??? Its not like they can start delivering pizzas at the weekend for an extra few bob. If they are going to start taking away medical cards, take them off some of the scoungers who cant be arsed getting off the drugs to find a job.

ejmaztec

taidghbaby wrote: »

like yore ma's.................ah i couldnt be arsed!!

She was murdered by the NHS, and I'm dead against necrophilia.

ejmaztec

Redpunto wrote: »

Its a whole lot of B*llix in all fairness, its causing undue stress on a hell of a lot of elderly people, sure i understand itd be means tested but if they have been gettin their visits to the GP and their meds free for the last so many years and now suddenly they could realistically having to find €150 a month??? Its not like they can start delivering pizzas at the weekend for an extra few bob. If they are going to start taking away medical cards, take them off some of the scoungers who cant be arsed getting off the drugs to find a job.

If you don't get your delivery within 6 hours, you get it free.

Run_to_da_hills

Redpunto wrote: »

Its a whole lot of B*llix in all fairness, its causing undue stress on a hell of a lot of elderly people, sure i understand itd be means tested but if they have been gettin their visits to the GP and their meds free for the last so many years and now suddenly they could realistically having to find €150 a month??? Its not like they can start delivering pizzas at the weekend for an extra few bob. If they are going to start taking away medical cards, take them off some of the scoungers who cant be arsed getting off the drugs to find a job.

They could also take up dealing :eek:


(Most of them know how to play cards )

JimmyCrackCorn!

Why would cash strapped familys need Penis pills and Viagra?

Aodan83

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

I didn't vote for any of them :rolleyes:

Taxing the poor and hitting out at vulnerable takes the biscuit.

I know. I mean, as long as you don't drink, drive, smoke, own a house, want to leave the country, enter the country or get paid the budget hasn't affected you at all. Lucky rich/middles class/upper middle class/lower middle class/everyone i've missed out on, people who have jobs, not doin any of those....wait a second!
This might not actually be very related to what you said, but youre gonna bring it up at some point that only the poor are beng taxed, so it's like a pre-emptive strike.

ejmaztec

JimmyCrackCorn! wrote: »

Why would cash strapped familys need Penis pills and Viagra?

So that they can make a mint on the child allowance and retire to Bermuda.