John Crown: Sláintecare won’t end inequality, but simply hide it in plain sight
Our health service is not underfunded, it is malfunded, with a model that incentivises inefficiency, and only a true reform of HSE funding, and the expansion of VHI to a universal system, can fix the problems
Ireland is in the middle of two healthcare crises. The more proximate and urgent one is of course the Covid-19 pandemic, a sudden unanticipated ‘act of God’ that has already stolen the lives of hundreds of our fellow citizens, including several brave healthcare workers. The other has a different tempo and a very different cause. In contrast to Covid-19, it is a decades-long slow-burner, with more nuanced, but no less real mortality implications. Unlike Covid, ...
