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Joan Bloomfield, 62, with the medication she must take to control her heart, blood pressure, cholesterol and arthritis. Pensioners would no longer receive free drugs under the Pharmaceutical benefits scheme, she was worried.Ms. Bloomfield (pictured) - who has had three heart bypass operation - duffers high blood pressure. Osteoporosis, arthritis in her wrists and hips and has a hiatus hernia. She takes 10 different medications each day. While pensions are to offest the new $2.50 charege for prescriptions, Ms. Bloomfield fears she will be caught with too little money when a number of prescriptions come due at once. August 20, 1990. (Photo by Bruce Milton Miller/Fairfax Media via Getty Images).