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# discretionary medical card

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Lucy O'Connor receives medical card after mother's battle with HSE
Parents of 4-year-old boy with cancer being pursued by debt collector on behalf of HSE
"Lucy's terrible story about her medical card isn't the first - but it was bound to happen"
'How sick does my child have to be?' - Campaign calls for medical cards for all seriously ill children