Thus, if a beneficiary with health problems chooses to monetise the health benefits, and opts to spend it on alcohol instead of relevant pharmaceutical products that is regarded as his/her free choice. That public resources expressly allocated towards health purposes are used in this manner does not seem to cause major concern. However, it is as yet unclear to what extent this reflects an increase in transparency of costs that were thus far hidden, or whether citizens who were entitled to in-kind benefits but who had hitherto never been able to validate their right to access (because of capacity-constraints in service provisions, shortages in subsidised housing, lack of public transport in rural areas, etc.)