The government is currently tinkering with disability benefits, but for millions of disabled folks, these aren’t just numbers on a spreadsheet, they’re the difference between making it through the month or free-falling into financial chaos. They are taking away a lifeline!
Picture this: You rely on medical cannabis to keep your epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, or chronic pain in check. But thanks to proposed government cuts, your wallet is about to end up in a full-blown crisis.
Private prescriptions? A few hundred quid a month.
Though medical cannabis got the legal thumbs-up in 2018, NHS access is still rarer than a British summer without rain. So, patients are funneled into private clinics! Or worse, the black market, where quality control is as mythical as a unicorn. Either way, the result is the same: people forced to choose between their health and their heating bill.
And let’s not forget the NHS, which will end up picking up the tab anyway when people land in hospital due to lack of proper treatment. A preventable mess? Yet here we are.
Without urgent action, wider NHS access, protected disability benefits, and a government that actually listens – thousands will be left suffering. Because right now?
The system is handing out tough choices where there should be care.
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