Costs stop patients seeking scripts
21st June 2013
By Kate Cowling
More than one in 10 patients in coastal parts of Queensland and NSW are foregoing prescription medications because the cost is too high, a report shows.
A staggering 15% of Gold Coast residents, and 14% of Central Coast dwellers, say they have been too poor at some point in the previous year to pay for prescribed medications.
In south-eastern Sydney, less than 5% make the same claim.
The regional snapshot is based on Medicare
