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has anyone got a medical card?

  • 21-03-2011 9:29am
    #1
    whelan1
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    one of my kids has been to the doctor 8 times so far this year:mad: now i can not afford this but she has to go to the doctor when she is sick or else she will end up in hospital , i know we are entitled to feck all with us being self employed , just wondering has any one managed to get a medical card or a gp only card. Hope to go to see the community welfare officer this week. sorry spelt title wrong and cant change it


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  • #2
    reilig
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    whelan1 wrote: »
    one of my kids has been to the doctor 8 times so far this year:mad: now i can not afford this but she has to go to the doctor when she is sick or else she will end up in hospital , i know we are entitled to feck all with us being self employed , just wondering has any one managed to get a medical card or a gp only card. Hope to go to see the community welfare officer this week. sorry spelt title wrong and cant change it

    We have no medical card nor never had one when I was young. Thankfully we haven't needed one. But the usual story is that I know people that have one who earn a lot more money than we do.

    I've a contact in the Primary Care Unit that issues the Medical Cards (Through work) who tells me that many applications are being refused the first time around, but needy cases will always get approved on appeal.


  • #3
    whelan1
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    drives me mad to be in the waiting room with dd and most of the people there dont have to pay


  • #4
    Chicken Run
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 595 ✭✭✭Chicken Run


    worth an appeal or the GP writing a letter if the costs are causing you hardship and your daughter has a chronic condition. CWO would be able to advise you better.


  • #5
    irishh_bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,700 ✭✭✭irishh_bob


    whelan1 wrote: »
    one of my kids has been to the doctor 8 times so far this year:mad: now i can not afford this but she has to go to the doctor when she is sick or else she will end up in hospital , i know we are entitled to feck all with us being self employed , just wondering has any one managed to get a medical card or a gp only card. Hope to go to see the community welfare officer this week. sorry spelt title wrong and cant change it


    judging by the number of cows and size of farm you appear to have , i seriously doubt you would qualify

    the biggest beef i have with GP care is related to the them operating in a closed shop , their is a cap on the number of GP,s who can set up a practice and those who are opperating practices have an unwritten contract with each other that they wont steal each others patients , try making an appointment with the GP in the next parish - town over and you will be told to go back to your local GP , imagine if tesco told you to go back to super value or the toyota garrage dealer told you to go back to the ford dealer , doctors see themselves as above vulgar competition and operate like a cartel , my local GP has actually put up his prices since the rescession began , hows that for contempt

    time the goverment tackled the sheltered sector once and for all


  • #6
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    i know better than alot of people how crap the health service is:mad: my gp is €45 a visit... but he has given me free visits etc so he is alot better than others.january and february would be slack months money wise for me and i found it hard to pay for the meds etc , even though we have a drugs payment card.... i hope fine gael keep up their promise of frre gp visits for all by 2014


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