Pharmaceutical Benefits
Sir, —How right “Carboy” is. A small cash payment on each prescription would do nobody any harm and might act as a mild deterrent to those “malades imaginaires” who rush off to a doctor whenever they have nothing better to do. As for the waste, it is quite fantastic, as anyone who has had a serious illness or operation will know. Boxes of pills and bottles of medicine accumulate prodigiously and only about 25 per cent of it all is ever used. The waste, however, does not stop here, for millions of containers, bottles, and so forth, which must all cost somebody money, are thrown away. It would do a Welfare State no harm to have just one week of war-time rationing, when every bottle, every scrap of paper, every inch of string, had a scarcity value quite beyond the comprehension of those who did not experience it.—Yours, etc., ILAM. December 30, 1960.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29401, 31 December 1960, Page 3
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