Dental provision and inherited prescription rules

Does dental provision show problems with the NHS's inherited structure?

Inherited arrangements can produce inconsistencies, including differences between prescription exemptions.

Some NHS arrangements fit later needs awkwardly because the original system did not anticipate them. Prescription exemptions provide one example after the initial dentistry question. Dan contrasts an underactive thyroid requiring thyroxine and type 1 diabetes requiring insulin with an overactive thyroid requiring suppressive medication. In his example, the replacement treatments bring free prescriptions while the suppressive treatment lacks the same automatic exemption. The institutional question is whether a practice continues for a present reason or through habit.