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That's barely a sliver of what I'm being paid by the think tank to invent these results!
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As someone who is deeply involved in the pharmaceutical sector in NZ the removal of prescription charges is unambiguously good for a large number of reasons. 1) Everyone getting a prescription saves some money. 1a) Everyone actually saves quite a lot more money than initially apparent. E.g. doctors will now freely write scripts for common medicines (paracetamol, ibuprofen, like a thousand common dermatology things) to allow people access at zero cost to them. 1b) The country saves in aggregate a HUGE amount of money due to people accessing those medicines at wholesale prices instead of buying the OTC from the pharmacy or supermarket at huge huge markups. As and example let's look at paracetamol, the cheapest you personally can get it is chemist warehouse, $4.60 for 100 tabs and everywhere else it can be significantly more expensive. The gov gets it for $17 for 1000 tabs. 2) One more barrier to accessing medicines is removed. Wholly good. 2a) The people who are the sickest are the ones who can least afford the copay. 2b) People actually taking their medicine keeps them out of further care saving money on more medicine or hospitalisation down the line. 3) It reduces bureaucracy around prescriptions, the pharmacy sector is already under huge pressure and every bit helps. 4) Bargain chemist and chemist warehouse lose their loss leader advantage, which is good cause they are destroying the pharmacy sector by cherry picking low complexity high profit patients. 5) I don't have to think about it at work anymore.
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Serephina posted:I agree 100% with what it's implying, but spidey sense is tingling and I'm wondering about selection bias; are free prescriptions handed out more often for less severe maladies, etc? The "free prescriptions" in this example were paid for by the study itself
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May 19, 2023 05:16
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but at what cost !!!
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exmarx posted:but at what cost !!! $618.6million it's right there in the budget
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May 19, 2023 07:26
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exmarx posted:but at what cost !!! $5
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exmarx posted:they've brought back the ministry of works btw many people saying this https://www.newsroom.co.nz/pro/new-100m-ministry-of-works-already-helping-troubled-public-projects
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May 19, 2023 11:47
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May 19, 2023 13:10
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May 19, 2023 23:25
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The greens list ranking got released today!
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good to see a communist in the top 5
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is it worth throwing my local vote at the Palmy guy? Probably not
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Firstscion posted:is it worth throwing my local vote at the Palmy guy? Probably not It is a fairly safe Labour seat, unless something changes closer to the election it is fine to vote Green. There is a tiny bit of pressure on Labour, and on your local candidate to trend left as their margins decrease.
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exmarx posted:good to see a communist in the top 5 be a bit of a shock to see james shaw anywhere other than the top 2 tbh
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May 20, 2023 02:30
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And another poll! https://twitter.com/lachlanp_/status/1660511054164795393?s=20
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May 22, 2023 06:14
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Excellent work conducting a survey before the budget is released. That's definitely never affected polls in the past.
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May 22, 2023 06:17
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Confusedslight posted:And another poll! use words, not emoji. gently caress!
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May 22, 2023 06:40
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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/country/490413/ratio-of-sheep-to-people-drops-below-five-to-one-for-first-time-in-170-years i'm worried we're not shagging enough sheep!!!
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May 22, 2023 06:42
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a less trustworthy poll than the roy morgan... impressive...
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May 22, 2023 06:46
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Booty Pageant posted:https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/country/490413/ratio-of-sheep-to-people-drops-below-five-to-one-for-first-time-in-170-years this is cow country now, bitch
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Confusedslight posted:And another poll! I have a really hard time believing National has dropped to 23%
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Horizon are a polling-as-business company who recruit people by offering a chance to win an iPad. Their sample is very much not representative, but it's probably internally consistent and shows more or less the same story as their last poll in January, maybe Nat/ACT slightly down and Lab/Green/TPM slightly up.
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yeah, i believe down, but not THAT far down
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In other news, teachers have voted for another strike on 31st May. Urgent negotiations happening this week and next to try and avoid it and now that the budgets done and dusted there might be more scope for Tinetti to move on the demands.
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redleader posted:use words, not emoji. gently caress!
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I thought the PPTA had just suspended all planned action as they were considering a new offer that came to them just after the budget was announced.
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Varkk posted:I thought the PPTA had just suspended all planned action as they were considering a new offer that came to them just after the budget was announced. Yeah they've agreed no action until the 30th. Strike is planned for the 31st if whatever offer comes through gets rejected I guess
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Saros posted:As someone who is deeply involved in the pharmaceutical sector in NZ the removal of prescription charges is unambiguously good for a large number of reasons. I work in a pharmacy and I am keen to see what would happen. chemist warehouse (and bargain chemist) have such a gross aesthetic in there. If I had to work in one I would be suicidal (I am anyway lol)
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I don't enjoy using Chemist Warehouse, but also gently caress getting scalped for antihistamines. Especially when a 5 pack and a 30 pack come in almost identical packaging, I felt like I was being scammed on purpose.
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Bloody Pom posted:I don't enjoy using Chemist Warehouse, but also gently caress getting scalped for antihistamines. Especially when a 5 pack and a 30 pack come in almost identical packaging, I felt like I was being scammed on purpose. Yeah my partner takes melatonin for sleep and it's like half the price at chemist warehouse to anywhere else. Doesn't feel great because I know they're a poo poo business, but I can save like $40-50 by going to there once a month or so for stuff like hair dye, nappies, and various OTC or unfunded meds.
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Bloody Pom posted:I don't enjoy using Chemist Warehouse, but also gently caress getting scalped for antihistamines. Especially when a 5 pack and a 30 pack come in almost identical packaging, I felt like I was being scammed on purpose. generally those prices come from the suppliers to us, we generally apply bog standard markups, and yes the price of some drugs is incredible, but it's not the pharmacy itself taking the majority of the cream unfortunately the contracts pharmac negotiate for the price of drugs stipulates that we can't sell those drugs otc, ie, we can't sell the lorafix brand loratadine we have in the dispensary otc. some pharmacies of course do this, and THEY make insane markups, but they'll get pinged sooner or later canesten 3 day vag thrush treatment went from $22 earlier this year to $24 and now $26 .. eek my professional advice? dont get sick
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bike tory posted:Yeah my partner takes melatonin for sleep and it's like half the price at chemist warehouse to anywhere else. Doesn't feel great because I know they're a poo poo business, but I can save like $40-50 by going to there once a month or so for stuff like hair dye, nappies, and various OTC or unfunded meds. how much do they charge for melatonin they have flyers that we use to guide prices. because of the commerce commission pharmacies cant discuss with others what prices they charge because it'd be collusion, so everyone is kind of guessing prescriptions medicines that are unfunded is a weird game. how much should I charge for boner pills? at my pharmacy it's different for different people, because we process prescriptions in our software and it just suggests we charge people what we charged last time, and so there is a large variety in charges for the same item. I tried to raise this with my boss but she didn't really want to address it and make a flat rate. she is a good pharmacist but by gently caress does she hate the idea of change. such a rigid thought process the place is micromanaged, and we're watched on camera and told to stop talking to people etc. I can't handle it, my self esteem is like a wet tissue, truly pathetic, and I cannot handle it for much longer. oh how I wish I had energy to look for a new job rather than just feel sad all the time. LOL
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wish they'd make melatonin available outside a prescription, i can't be bothered doing paperwork for night nights.
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echinopsis posted:how much do they charge for melatonin I think it was like $18 for 30x3mg? The other pharmacies around here charge $40+ for the same prescription.
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Regarding melatonin you can just buy a 700 litre tub of Amazon for 17 cents, and I've done it and so have friend of mine and I've never gotten in trouble. That said, I've started using prescription ones because they are slow release and also who knows what's in Amazon melatonin pills. Edit: I'm not even sure they work lol
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klen dool posted:Regarding melatonin you can just buy a 700 litre tub of Amazon for 17 cents, and I've done it and so have friend of mine and I've never gotten in trouble. I heard slow release is useless for helping sleep, fwiw
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echinopsis posted:the place is micromanaged, and we're watched on camera and told to stop talking to people etc. I can't handle it, my self esteem is like a wet tissue, truly pathetic, and I cannot handle it for much longer. oh how I wish I had energy to look for a new job rather than just feel sad all the time. LOL If you are anywhere near Welly come work for the devil itself in government. Saros fucked around with this message at 04:59 on May 24, 2023 |
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