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Old 28-04-2012, 18:55   #12
RichardCoulter
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Re: £7.65 now for a prescription?!

They say that approx 80% of people get free prescriptions anyway, with exemptions, low income schemes etc. If you take off the money lost to fraud and administrative costs, it probably doesn't cost much more to make it universally free.

Having said that, when the Universal Credit comes in, people on it will no longer automatically get free prescriptions like they did with Income Support, Income Based Jobseekers Allowance etc.
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