Re: What pills were those?

[Ian G Batten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

On Mon, 08 Nov 2004, Roland Perry wrote:

> >Suppose the drugs are something frighteningly expensive.  Why should I,
> >through my taxes, pay for an additional set because someone can't be
> >bothered to take them with her?
> 
> Forgot. And isn't it called National *Insurance*? Since when did the 
> policy exclude such accidental eventualities? Anyway, she's not going to 

Hmm.  Try claiming for ``I had to cancel my holiday because I'd left my
drugs at home'' and see how far you get.

> throw away either second set, they'll get used up (especially as only 
> one month at a time is prescribed these days). How do you know they were 

What if the drug is a two week course, say antibiotics?

> expensive (as far as I could tell the main problem was not being able to 
> find out anything about them at all).

You don't know they were cheap.

> >your music?  So why are your drugs any different?
> 
> Because the lack of them can be life-threatening. I thought our society 
> cared about that. Obviously not :-(

I don't see why society should care about someone's health more than
they do themselves.  Yes, I realise this is the pathway to ``smokers get
no treatment'' which I don't believe, but I think there is a minimum
level of self-care which is required.  In this case, she had a simple
option: go back and get them, or get someone else to send them on.

ian