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Promoting a Private System and Collateral Damage
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Pat Phelan has a horror post about Mrs. Phelans mammogram appointment. After going to the doctor for an appointment she recieved the letter from the HSE (here) for an appointment in 2010.The conclusion though;
Anyways money changed hands, job done, Mrs Phelan is healthy as a horse.
Dont depend on the Irish health care system to save your lives though.
Only seems to confirm that the unacknowledged trend (policy?) of pushing privatisation continues. If you want results, you need insurance and payment. Yet if this continues it will lead to more heartache, more collateral damage as those who can afford it least end up with inferior health care. We may well be having a debate about universal healthcare in a few elections time.
Policy.
Why would we be having a debate about universal healthcare in a few elections time when in the last two elections a number of parties other than FF proposed systems that would not distinguish between public and private patients in terms of when people are seen and yet a greater number of the people in the wisdom voted for a continuation of the haphazard system we have under FF?
It’s a harsh idea I know but I think parties should hire students on a part time basis to ask people who they voted for, and if it was PD, FF, or Independent to tell theme to stop moaning about the system and live or die with the fact that they voted for it to be like that based on the policies of those parties they supported.
Q: would transatlantic “free marketeers” such as our good friends the PDs be in the business of putting into action the grand plan enunciated many years ago by Mr. No Government himself (Grover Norquist)?
As he said: “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”