# Chemists,the Health service & its affect on my sex life.

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May I take this opportunity to thank all the elderly & sick expats from all countries for coming to the Costa´s and crippling the health service.
 The fantastic new hospital in Torrevieja has about 50% non Spanish occupancy rates (all on Spanish NHS not private), every time I have visited a chemist here I am in a long queue of people,almost none of whom are Spanish with a stack of prescriptions. Because of this imbalance in income to expenditure we now find a situation where local government cannot afford to fund either the health service fully or even pay the chemists for the drugs that they have dispensed. This is strangely not a problem throughout all of Spain but only in areas of high expatriate population (Costa Brava, Blanca & Del Sol mainly), there are far fewer problems inland or away from the Costas. It is my understanding that each government makes a payment to the Spanish government for each known resident expat, but if the figure that was quoted on this forum recently is correct(of a little over a thousand€ per person9 then it is easy to see why the system is at breaking point, as this figure would not even cover a single doctors visit & subsequent hospital referral, let alone the daily or thrice weekly visits to hospital required by so many. I also found laughable a recent post that mentioned that "they are paid handsomely"(the government) for our presence here, (if that is not the exact phrase I apologise but it is close enough).
 
 I suppose if the system collapses & becomes unusable to the expats (a real possibility if Spain leaves the EU) then the old moaners will go home and then at least the bars will be able to have music again.
 
 I understand and support the stand that the Pharmacists are making, as no private business could withstand an extended period of some months with no income against expenditure that probably by now runs into millions of euros per pharmacy.
 
 However to the reason that prompted this post, it seems now that I will have to go and queue for two hours    behind hundreds of prescription wielding pensionistas, to pay full retail price for some birth control or I will not have a sex life!