Spanish forced to compensate for drugs as cuts take toll

<p>MADRID (Reuters) – Patients in <span>Spain</span> will have to compensate a full cost for some <span>prescription medicines</span> underneath a new magnitude to cut medical costs authorized on Wednesday, <span>Health Minister Ana Mato</span> reliable during a press conference.</p>
<p> The new measure, that will come into outcome in August, will request to 425 drugs for “<span>minor ailments</span>“, including migraines. Patients will have to compensate 100 percent of a cost for codeine, some anti-inflammatories and laxatives, among other drugs.</p>
<p> “We’re reworking a financing of a array of drugs with small healing use and for teenager ailments. At a same time, we’re going to be means to use <span>public financing</span> for new drugs and those with some-more healing value,” Mato pronounced following a assembly with health member from Spain’s 17 <span>autonom...