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Aussie105

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1. 'Socialized medicine' for comparison . . .

Reply to timms139 (Original post)

Mon May 19, 2025, 09:13 PM

May 19

Australia, pensioner couple, us two.

Fixed prices on all prescriptions, $31.60 each for non pensioners. If you have a pensioner concession card, the most you will pay is $7.70.

And . . . there is a cap, clock up $XXX in a year, and thereafter scripts are filled free, up to the 31st of December.

But MAGA will tell you socialism equals Communism equals bad, right?

No idea what the British or Canadians pay for their scripts, but I'd like to hear from Brits and Canuks on that.

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