Medical cards - Eligibility issue must be tackled

The Labour Party, in yesterday publishing what it described as a major analysis of the Government’s deception on medical cards, raised a very pertinent point.

The analysis specifically related to medical cards and although the Government's outrageously shameful U-turn on issuing extra cards is hardly news, Labour's deputy leader and spokesperson on health, Liz McManus, broached the issue of eligibility.

An aspect she highlighted was the inequity of the medical card system for low-income families and the automatic qualification for putative millionaires on reaching 70 years of age.