Brendan Burgess
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Ireland’s private health insurance market provides primarily supplementary health insurance for hospital services, operating alongside a public hospital system to which residents have universal access entitlements,
We need a public hospital system.
The private hospitals take a huge amount of pressure off the public hospitals.
If we were to ban private hospitals, then the queues in the public hospitals would just get longer.
Surely access to care should be totally dependent on medical need, not money/income?
I think it stands to reason that access to acute/urgent care should be based on medical need in the public hospital system. For those who can afford it there should be the alternative of retaining a level of insurance cover to allow them access to private hospitals. This is not being any way elitist as we are a democracy and not a socialist society.Surely access to care should be totally dependent on medical need, not money/income?
Surely, in a true republic, money/income should not allow anybody to access care quicker?
Why?
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