In the UK we have socialized medicine. This means that services are free at the point of contact.
Prescriptions are free to some less well-off groups of people, such as the unemployed or the elderly. Others have to pay £8.60 for every item or appliance.
Apparently, it has now become common practice to prescribe over the counter medicines to non-payers, who could otherwise buy them very cheaply over-the-counter. Notably, paracetemol (acetaminophen) and aspirin are in this group.
Paracetamol and aspirin can be bought without a prescription, and in its non-brand forms cost only 20p (£0.20) per packet. Its cost to the National health Service (NHS), when paid for by prescription, however, is considerably more.
Yearly, it could be as much as £400 million.
The British media used to make fun of France for such practices. Now it seems that Britain has succumbed to this madness, too!
This video is just a morning television discussion about new guidelines effectively banning such practices in regard to doctors (GPs) giving out such prescriptions.
Here the link:
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