Prescription charges
Sir, — Mr Easton has failed to grasp, regarding direct or indirect payment for pharmaceuticals, that he is confusing an economic problem with a moral one. “From each according to his ability, to each according to
his need” is a philoscrphy which few would quarrel with, whether Marxist or not, and this is what the successive Governments since 1935 have tried to carry out in their social security legislation. However, if, after what Mr Easton will agree is heavy taxation, the “able” are drained of their ability to provide more by way of taxation to meet the increasing demands of the “needy”, should not the latter learn to keep themselves, if able to do so? The very few genuinely needy will never be left to die in the ditch. To avoid increases in taxation I would cheerfully subscribe towards the cost of any prescriptions. — Yours, etc..
M. P. ROBINSON February 18, 1977.
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