Quote Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
Have a read of that

I am sure the reason is by people taking their medication as prescribed and paid for the spend less time in the doctors chair

BBC News - Free prescriptions 'saving Welsh NHS money for 10 years'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-39457033
That's Vaughan Gethin trying to justify it..without credible evidence. There is another school which says if free people don't appreciate it and waste it.

Point is a pack of paracetamol 40p...same pack on prescription dispensed by the chemist £2-£3 cost to NHS