US President, Barack Obama, has identified the cost of health care as the number one threat to the American economy. In a 55-minute speech to the American Medical Association earlier this month, in which he…
Posts By Gerry Burke
Cometh the hour, cometh Gilmore
During the unkind years of the neo-liberal consensus, which were dominated by the free-market/small-government/low-tax/eat-what-you-kill/greed-is-good mentality that pretty well everyone now recognises to have been a failure, it was exceptionally difficult for the Labour party in…
Harney Chooses to Bail Out Private Hospitals While Savaging the Elderly
This week, indignant old men and women have led a wave of unprecedented social protest in the national media. Next week, the same old men and women will take their protest to the streets. The…
Bullshit: a modern art form, and more harmful than lies
“If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself.” – Kathleen Parker, a National Review online columnist and a former Sarah Palin supporter. Bullshit is big at the moment. And the ubiquity and…
A Paradigm Shift to the Left among ABC1′s?
Do the findings of the TASC survey, The Solidarity Factor – Public Perceptions of Unequal Ireland, published this week, represent a paradigm shift to the left among Irish adults, particularly among wealthier people? According to the…
The Appalling State of Irish Maternity Services
The state of the Ireland’s maternity services is deeply unsatisfactory. In August of last year, in considerable frustration and anger at the lack of any cohesive action to make improvements, I wrote to the Irish…
The Many Faults of Co-Location
The simplistic idea behind co-location – to create extra space for public patients in public hospitals by transferring the care of private patients currently occupying beds in those hospital to new private hospitals on the…
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