Playing hardball with lives of sick people

HERE we go again. Would the Minister for Health and the Irish Pharmaceutical Union ever stop playing hardball with sick people’s lives? Time is running out in the latest stand-off.

I resent being used as a political football. As usual, the patient is the lowest form of life at the end of the medicine chain.

I depend on very expensive medicines for some quality of life. I simply cannot afford to pay their commercial price. I still could not afford to pay it even if I were four times better off.