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Thu 10 Oct 2008Limited medical card changes discussed - Harney
HEALTH CUTS:THE GOVERNMENT considered confining the abolition of the over 70s medical card scheme to new entrants only but concluded this change wouldn't raise enough savings, Minister for Health Mary Harney confirmed yesterday.
She also confirmed legal advice had been sought by the Government in advance of it axing the automatic entitlement to medical cards for all those over 70 years.
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