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Are you entitled to any financial help with your meds?
The way the financial assistance system works is for eligible medicine (And in all fairness that covers most medication) the state pays a portion of the medication up to 100% after 2500 pounds of medical expenditures.
In my case I have almost reached this, but I also take two medications which are not eligible. So I have to pay 100% of these all the time always with no discount.
There are two extraordinary systems on top of that. One of them allows you, if you pay more than 2500 pounds a year, to instead pay like 215 a month. This is a bad deal mathematically.
The other allows you to request extraordinary aid in case you have an unexpected medical expense. It is essentially a municipal medical loan. I am not eligible for this because I am poor.
Can't poor people get free prescriptions? What do you do if you have literally no money, or have to choose between meds or food?
Nope
You get no meds.
What if it's a life or death situation? For instance in England adults generally have to pay for their prescriptions, but if you have certain medical conditions and need medication to keep you alive (such as cancer patients, people who've had thyroidectomies, diabetics etc) get all their prescriptions free.
In such extraordinary circumstances you can get the extraordinary aid, which is usually constituted as a municipal health loan.
That sounds awful. So if you're penniless/homeless/whatever, you just keep getting deeper into debt to stay alive.
Assuming you don't just fall out the medical system, pretty much. "During covid" there was a system of free medication for the homeless, but the social democratic government got rid of that once "covid ended".
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Its messed up. At least it can at most add up to ~2500 pounds a year. Still grim
That's literally nothing. What are you supposed to pay for with this?