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<blockquote data-quote="Grant_Vicat" data-source="post: 1705877" data-attributes="member: 388932"><p>Hi, as somebody who had Type 1 for 54 years I must have cost the taxpayer a fortune as I had supplies of syringes, needles, cotton wool, surgical spirit, industrial meths, Lente, Actrapid and Monotard insulins, testing strips (200 a month) lancets, and a battery of different tablets for hypertension, phosphate binders, and any medication including paracetamol (!) for resultant and even unrelated problems. After my pancreas transplant in 2013, for 6 months I was on an anti-viral drug that cost, at the time, £1200 a month. In the last 4 years I have been on a prepayment prescription that saves me having to spend at least £42 per month for immunosuppresants and other necessary drugs. I am well aware of how fortunate I am to live in England. Not only has this marvellous but overstretched and underfunded system kept me alive for nearly 60 years, but has done so without the fear of my bancruptcy. I would not support a government that is trying to imitate the American health service. That would be suicidal!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grant_Vicat, post: 1705877, member: 388932"] Hi, as somebody who had Type 1 for 54 years I must have cost the taxpayer a fortune as I had supplies of syringes, needles, cotton wool, surgical spirit, industrial meths, Lente, Actrapid and Monotard insulins, testing strips (200 a month) lancets, and a battery of different tablets for hypertension, phosphate binders, and any medication including paracetamol (!) for resultant and even unrelated problems. After my pancreas transplant in 2013, for 6 months I was on an anti-viral drug that cost, at the time, £1200 a month. In the last 4 years I have been on a prepayment prescription that saves me having to spend at least £42 per month for immunosuppresants and other necessary drugs. I am well aware of how fortunate I am to live in England. Not only has this marvellous but overstretched and underfunded system kept me alive for nearly 60 years, but has done so without the fear of my bancruptcy. I would not support a government that is trying to imitate the American health service. That would be suicidal! [/QUOTE]
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