A healthy nation hangs in the balance
Here is final pre election article I did for politico.ie on the parties respective health policies. Now that a Labour/Fine Gael government seems inevitable, the interesting policy outcomes will be what type of universal health insurance they agree to, whether the HSE will be abolished or not (my guess is that it will be renamed and reformed into different bodies but with most staff doing the same job under a different employers title) and of most importance – who will be minister for health – with James Reilly being hot favourite….
No relief for sickest and poorest in Budget 2011
See here for my analysis of the budget implications for health published in today’s Irish Times, with a few of the bits they left out added back in! And my mega typo corrected…
LISTENING TO Brian Lenihan’s Budget speech, you’d think the health services were going to be untouched by austerity in the years ahead. Although health services make up 27 per cent of current spending, they are just under one-third of the €2.2 billion in cuts outlined, yet they did not even get a mention.
I have had enough – time to claim our future
If there was some level of societal consensus around what is ‘enough’, we could plan for a very different type of society, not just for a few but for all. See here article I wrote for October issue of Punt magazine on ‘Enough’.
Punt III: Less tax means lesser services
The majority of Irish people say they don’t want to pay more tax. But what if those taxes guaranteed quality public services? Se here for my column in October’s Punt magazine (more…)
Rude Health II: Pay for health, not sickness
This is my second column in Punt magazine. See other posts for info on Punt and Rude Health I.
Why does Irish health system incentivise sickness rather than well-being? (more…)
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