How much do you pay for the doctor?

Had to take Micheal to the doctors today he's 10 and had to pay $24-00 with CSC!!

Also found out that when Jayden turns 6 he will be $24-00 as well!!

We pay $37-00 per visit with CSC and Abby is $6-00 until she turns three then she's $12-00.

This makes me so flipping when Micheal was a baby under 6's were free and up until 18 were like $10-00.

How the heck do low income families afford this???

Is this the norm for most medical centres. Thought it would be interesting to see how much the cost varies as according to the government the average cost for an adult is $25-00!

Edited by nuttymama

Wow that is expensive. We dont have a CSC card and we pay $15 in a normal day. Weekend $22 I think. With CSC its even cheeper. I think my husband pays $10 his docs.

I would change docs if I were you.

For me to go to doc - it $57, we don't have a csc but am in the process of sorting that out.

Its sooo expensive and down here we have radio commercials to say go to your GP's rather than going to A&E - but its no wonder people go to A&E when its so expensive to go to the doc!!!!

Am in the process of looking for another Doctor too, and also wonder how low income families cope with the costs!

We have the same thing here, but last time I took my mother to the after hours surgery after 11-00pm they charged her $98-00 that was three years ago and she had a CSC. So there's no way most people can afford that hence they have to go to the A&E department!

we pay nothing for the boys - unless on a saturday $7. I pay $25 for me, and $3 for prescriptions. WE have a csc. my doctor is fabulous and usually writes me two prescriptions for my asthma medication - one pre-dated three months later, so I don't have to come in again. She will also just write a script every second month if I ask. Lovely doctor! probably illegal as hell to do that, but it makes my life so much easier.

For Han it is free at our docs.

I go to student health when I absolutely have to and that is free too.

It all depends where you live and if your doctors is under the government scheme.
When we were in Tauranga we had to pay almost $50 each for me and DH and $10 for Bay but here we pay $15 each and Bay is free.

For McKayla it is free until 5. For adults it is $55 for 15 minutes and gets charged additional afterwards.

I pay $27 as i'm a student with a CSC and DH is $30. Andrew and Josh are free. For afterhours (as ours is open till 9pm) its an additional $10 for me and DH and $5 for the little ones. I think my mum and dad have scored the best deal it was costing them $58 to see their dr and now $28 with the new thing that labour have brought in. I am yet to see what we will be charge now with the changes but I think from memory it will $24 for DH and $20 for me.

We are in central auckland, and absolutley LOVE our GP, so wont change even if prices keep going up. At the moment its $57 for me and DH, and it will be $5 for under 6, then $30 for 6-17 year olds.

He is the best GP that I have ever had (have been with him for nearly 10 years now)....even when we were in the UK we used to email him and he would give advise (free) by email!! Wonderful!

We dont have CSCs but have health insurance, so at least get some of it back.