On The Margins

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This morning.

At the Grangegorman Primary Care Centre in Dublin.

Minister for Health Simon Harris and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar hold giant-sized cardboard ‘medical cards’ to launch the Budget 2019 changes which come into effect this week and next week.

Changes include a €10 reduction in the monthly Drugs Payment Scheme threshold from €134 to €124; a 10 per cent increase across all GP visit card weekly income thresholds; and a reduction in prescription charges from €2 to €1.50 for all medical card holders over the age of 70.

Meanwhile…

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9 thoughts on “On The Margins

  1. Brother Barnabas

    varadkar should stop smiling in photographs

    (can you have a word, please, cian?)

    1. Martco

      ah now @BB
      sure that insincere smile & the shiny suit are a vital part of selling white pvc doubleglazed windows & doors
      he’d be lost without it

  2. Fairhill

    It’s lovely that they have taken this time and effort to make medicines affordable, they really are a caring government looking after the sick, he has my vote anyway

  3. Chris

    “Those living on the streets, in tents, in hostels, in hotel bedrooms will be delighted. Those sharing bedrooms with strangers bcoz that’s all they can afford will celebrate. ” This is sarcastic because the cohort of the population already get their health care for free anyway so because this small help everyone else doesn’t give them a free house so of course it’s cruel and unfeeling etc..

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