Health
Dan O’Brien: Why banning private practice in our public hospitals is not the answer
The problem with Irish healthcare is not a lack of resources, it is that abundant resources are not used as efficiently as they should be
It’s rare that you read something that completely changes how you view an issue, but that is what happened to me last week. It was a paper published by Xidong Guo and Sarah Parlane, two UCD academics in the School of Economics, and it contained this bombshell: “The percentage of the population with unmet medical needs on average is much more prominent in the countries that forbid private practice within public hospitals”.
It has been ...