.....Can someone explain to me why this scheme seems to be so divisive between all the parties? ....
Yes i agree that its the principle, the more i think of it the more I feel i could be socialist at heart as i don't agree with it. I'm more berlin than Boston, however i have private insurance to queue jump if needed and think if privatised certain aspects of the service would be better, for example hospital cleanliness. I doubt its a deal breaker though.
Public spending on health is one of the lowest of any developed country, in spite of massive increases in health expenditure since the late 1990s.
Total Irish spending on health was 7.1 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) in Ireland in 2004, below the 8.9 per cent average across developed countries.
Only Mexico, Poland, the Slovak Republic and South Korea ranked lower than Ireland in the survey of 30 countries.
The number of acute care hospital beds in Ireland is also well below average. In 2004, Ireland had 2.9 acute beds per 1,000 population, below the OECD average of 4.1 beds per 1,000 population.
The expenditure on health as a percentage of GDP has not changed sine 1992.
P.s I have been in two hospitals in France, the maternity and medical wards I visited each room had only one or two beds and every room was ensuite. Both off these hospitals where regional hospitals.
Not only that practice that you mention but there are many hospital campuses which have both private and public hospitals i.e. Mater misericordiae and St. Vincents to name but a few.P.S. am I wrong in thinking that we already have an Irish form of co-location, given that consultants will often see private patients in public hospitals?!
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