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  • #4952
    Roger_007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    scargill wrote: »
    when they talk about €1,000 for box of drugs, €50 for 5 mls of something else - does the Drug Treatment purchase fund not limit them to €144 per month? Am I missing something here?

    Also - what does the Medical Card give them that they wouldn't otherwise get as a matter of course (even without medical insurance?)
    Its all about the €144 a month. Not a fortune compared to the total cost of treating a patient for cancer which is typically €20,000 to €30,000.


  • #4953
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    scargill wrote: »
    Also - what does the Medical Card give them that they wouldn't otherwise get as a matter of course (even without medical insurance?)
    almost free basic healthcare


  • #4954
    europa11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,730 ✭✭✭europa11


    Looks like Joe won't get around to that pesky Oireachtas Communications Committee meeting on RTE presenters salaries today.

    what a pity!........ eh?;)


  • #4955
    Sittingpretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,872 ✭✭✭Sittingpretty


    With the amount of money that was, at one time, floating around this country, we should have a health care system second to none and the amount of tax we pay should facilitate free healthcare for all.

    I have every sympathy for parents of sick children and the care they receive should not be based on their ability to pay for it.


  • #4956
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Thank heavens for conference calls. I dont have to listen to anymore of this sh1te.


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  • #4957
    JM Skipton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭JM Skipton


    Seems to me that all the Government needs to do is tax Apple another 0.5% and a lot of funding issues would be sorted


  • #4958
    sudzs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭sudzs


    uh-oh, on air breakdown imminent! :eek:


  • #4959
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    sudzs wrote: »
    uh-oh, on air breakdown imminent! :eek:
    Donnybrook being hit by a lightening strike?


  • #4960
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    Well thanks for that Joe.. I'm well and truly depressed now..

    Suicide..
    Kids with cancer..

    Up next a squirrel that was run over by a steamroller ..


  • #4961
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    LOL
    RTÉ propaganda advert


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  • #4962
    scargill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,684 ✭✭✭scargill


    Roger_007 wrote: »
    Its all about the €144 a month. Not a fortune compared to the total cost of treating a patient for cancer which is typically €20,000 to €30,000.

    OK. I know all about the 144 a month! I have meds to take which cost €120 a month. The DPS used to limit me to €75 a month, it has crept up gradually over several years. So in effect I'm pay an extra €500 a year!
    snubbleste wrote: »
    almost free basic healthcare

    Do they not get that anyway? Not arguing - just trying to figure out what the obsession with Medical Card is this week.


  • #4963
    Meathlass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Meathlass


    Why don't they just fill in these forms and have it done with. Then keep all the paperwork in the one place in case they ever come looking for it again.


  • #4964
    europa11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,730 ✭✭✭europa11


    Do any of these callers realise that they're speaking to, and expecting sympathy from, one of the public purses' most highly paid individuals?

    Maybe the irony probably just flies over their heads.


  • #4965
    Meathlass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Meathlass


    Jesus - 3 kids with disabilities - what are the odds of that. Poor woman.


  • #4966
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    scargill wrote: »
    Do they not get that anyway? Not arguing - just trying to figure out what the obsession with Medical Card is this week.
    If you don't have a medical card or insurance, you will have to pay a capped amount for all medical care ranging from GP visits to hospital beds.
    The reason the MC is an issue recently is because they are rigorously enforcing and tightening MC eligibility


  • #4967
    signostic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,887 ✭✭✭signostic


    The whole drugs schemes/medical care schemes etc etc seem to be rolled up in so much red tape and regulations, its no wonder that HSE is such a monolith


  • #4968
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Meathlass wrote: »
    Jesus - 3 kids with disabilities - what are the odds of that. Poor woman.
    It is a life sentence. She should be given a medal


  • #4969
    lisaj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 285 ✭✭lisaj


    I just realised that I was listening to yesterday's episode on the RTÉ website. I was late tuning in yesterday so I had missed the beginning of it and then I was thinking that it sounded similar to yesterday.

    The comments here still tallied.


  • #4970
    Yakuza
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,130 ✭✭✭Yakuza


    3 kids with disabilities :(

    The HSE budget is multiples of what it was 10 years ago, almost all of it swallowed up in salary costs. There's far too much administration overhead in these places and not enough front line staff.


  • #4971
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    This woman puts two lesbians getting unreasonable customer service in a retail establishment into perspective


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  • #4972
    artful_codger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,449 ✭✭✭artful_codger


    Three kids with disabilities!? Bad genes much...


  • #4973
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    "We save the state thousands by looking after our own children"

    And all sympathy vanishes through the window.


  • #4974
    Floppybits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,284 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    Meathlass wrote: »
    Jesus - 3 kids with disabilities - what are the odds of that. Poor woman.

    3 kids with disabilities and a new baby in the house.


  • #4975
    Roger_007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    Don't worry. Someone offering free wheelchair will be on shortly.


  • #4976
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    In fairness, 1000mg is just two panadol.


  • #4977
    Meathlass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Meathlass


    artful_codger wrote: »
    Three kids with disabilities!? Bad genes much...

    Yeah was thinking that myself. Very unPC I know but if it was me I certainly wouldn't be chancing having another child.


  • #4978
    alexonhisown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 668 ✭✭✭alexonhisown


    I am being too harsh thinking if they cant afford a new wheelchair why did she have another baby recently.


  • #4979
    Yakuza
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,130 ✭✭✭Yakuza


    JonathanAnon wrote: »

    And all sympathy vanishes through the window.

    Why? This poor woman is doing multiples of the work another parent with the same amount of kids has. She's at her wits' end, I'd cut her some slack.


  • #4980
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    "They don't care"
    the way she said it in such a scaling tone of deflation


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  • #4981
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    Meathlass wrote: »
    Yeah was thinking that myself. Very unPC I know but if it was me I certainly wouldn't be chancing having another child.
    Maybe you'd be trying your luck for a child with no disabilities?


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