Does the British Health Service Really Spend $26 on Each Gluten-free Pizza?

In France, the french NHS pay up to 45€/month. This is peanuts if we take into account the prices of gluten-free products (a 250gr slice of gluten-free bread is about 4,5€, compared to about 0,5-0,8€ for a french baguette).

As gluten-free diet is the only cure for celiac disease, yes... it is normal the healthcare system pays for it, as it pays for insulin and other remedies. All in all, health care is only a matter of choice for a country; either it is a developped country, with all the standards or it is a non developped country with very low standard of lives. We pay taxes for these purposes (health, education etc).

In England the prescriptions are being cut down to just bread and flour. Really pathetic country who couldn't careless about Coeliac's . The restaurants lie about being gluten-free, the supermarkets are always recalling gluten-free products because they have gluten them. It almost feels like everyone's against Coeliac's if you look on some websites in the UK. I wish I could snap my fingers and the whole of UK became Coeliac's as that's the only way it would be taken seriously, unfortunately.

I can see the argument for the goverment helping celiac patients with their food purchases, since not eating gluten is the only way they can stay healthy. However. That being said, then you are being watched by Big Brother (gov't), Big Ag (the food corporations and big supermarket chains), health insurance companies, as well as pharma corporations, all of which will have a say in what you can eat, how much you can eat, how healthy that food will be--because as we all know, processed and refined food is worse for the body's health, glycemic-index, etc., than organic, whole food, unprocessed foods. I would very much prefer myself to buy all of my own food and leave all of these entities OUT of my food purchasing decisions. They have absolutely NO RIGHT to be there, tampering in any way, with what I wish to eat (provided it's gluten free) and what I want to eat (organic vs industrial man made food products).

I agree with England; we need to completely kick gluten out of the entire feed chain, as it is now becoming very apparent that gluten is bad for anyone to consume, not just those with celiac or gluten intolerance. Then again, all of the systems need to be dismantled and started anew, with better and healthier food choices across the board.

Hello! This is a great idea. I'm from ROMANIA, UE but in my country I don't have any aid from medical insurance or another institute of Romanian State.

In Romania, I believe it is urgently necessary to learn about celiac disease. There are very few celiac disease specialists here. I believe the International Institute of Medicine must take action to inform the Romanian Government.

Please don't forget: celiac disease is a handicap.

High price of gluten-free food contributes directly to malnutrition, and combined with malabsorbtion, generates bad quality of life.

Please help, in Romania we don't have it right.