In the UK you either pay for prescriptions or you get them free.

Over here, we have to pay for our prescriptions. It's never free. The best our government can do for us is to subsidise, making it cheaper for the poor. IN singapore, there's a saying, 'one can afford to die but not fall sick'. Medical bills are way too expensive, and even with insurance coverage, we have to pay high premiums for it.

Either pay for get them free? We will never have it free here.. lol =D Even after some deductions for all sorts of assistance, we have to pay from our own pockets too. Also, every doctor, or clinics, polyclinics, to hopsitals have got different policies when it comes to payment of prescription. It's a difficult process. I would rather die than to fall sick and pay for prescriptions.. haha

That is crazy.. Just like I have no health insurance here in the states.. So just a doctors visit and x-rays cost me over 1000$ over two visits.. and 4 x-rays total.. it is crazy .. . then our state ran health insurance said I did not qualify if I do not earn over 50$ a month well I do not earn that much at all.. So then they wait listed me and then they want me to pay 200$ a month for my insurance to be off the wait list.. That is crazy.. I am just thankful I have my Shamanic and alternative healing and medicine knowledge cause the doctors have never helped me other than telling me what I had already knew.. and give me medicines that never healed me just made me sicker than dog.. So I then turn around and find the over the counter or herbal equivalent and use that.. I lost trusting the doctors long ago... The only thing they ever told me that I was happy to hear is I had scarring on my bones from 6 lightning strike, Why happy? Cause everyone told me I was delusional and it never happened. So I am glad the proof is hidden right there on my bones. I have experienced other lightning strikes since then.

No they just did. 800 pounds! which I assume is 1600 dollars. what would happen here in the States, there would be a fight between he patient's insurance and the hospital.Meanwhile the patient wouldn't have the meds! Here we Do put a price on health. And Sadly if you don't have the money you don't get treated.

Healthcare is a big issue in this country. If you have insurance, you pay a lot for it. If you don't have it you have to pay a lot for care or go to a "low cost" clinic where the care may not be very good.

Until last year, I was paying £104 a year for a pre-payment certificate for my prescriptions. Then I developed a health condition which makes me exempt from prescription charges. Although I am struggling financially, I'd prefer to be paying the £104 than to have medical exemption. Having said that, I'm grateful that we dont have to pay the full costs of medication and treatment as I dont think I'd still be around if we did.

well I hope it dont break them costing so much that is out of this world to up payments on the pills yup I have to take some I have to pay for my copay is 36$ a month wish I could get them free or that they would come out with a genitric so copay woulld only be $6 a month on that one pil like my others

So if you can't afford your pills (and who could, at that price?!), the doctor himself has to pay for them? How does he make a living and pay his own bills if he's paying for some of his patients' medications? I don't understand this, does he work for free or does the government pay his salary and the expenses of his office?

Luckily I live in Wales so I also get mine for free, I think everyone should get them free, I dont understand why some people pay and some dont, some people cant survive without certain pills so I think there should be no cost for them.