Ill-considered medical card cuts just like FF’s ‘mad manifesto’ in 1977

I enjoyed Ivan Yates’s column (October 23) and I agree totally with his view of Fianna Fáil and its lust for power for power’s sake at all times.

I believe the party lost its way the day Seán Lemass retired from office. The present mess they created bears out the adage ‘you reap what you sow.’ The implementation of the medical card scheme for over-70s was not thought out and was just like the mad manifesto of 1977, purely for political gain irrespective of the consequences.

Now, hopefully, people will wake up before they vote next year in the local and European elections.