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Tuesday, Feb 7th 2012


Articles Covering Private Health Care

Netherlands “Universal” Health care insurance scheme has gone from a two-tier health system to a three tier health system | Dominic Haugh

An article by Donagh of Dublin Opinion • January 12th 2012

Netherlands “Universal” Health care insurance scheme has gone from a two-tier health system to a three tier health system | Dominic Haugh
Dominic Haugh has a very good analysis of Fine Gael/Labour’s FairCare “Universal” Health Insurance scheme which they’re proposing will transform Ireland’s two-tier apartheid health system into a single tier equitable one. It’s nonsense of [...]

Morbid Symptoms: Health Under Capitalism

Socialist Register 2010 - Morbid Symptoms: Health Under Capitalism (Merlin Press) Ed: Leo Panitch & Colin Leys.
There’s been some excellent work published on the many faults of the Irish health service by campaigning journalists like Sara Burke and Maev-Ann Wren. For those who want to put the debates about Irish healthcare in an international context, [...]

Is fearr an tsláinte ná na táinte

My early years are replete with memories of the wisdom contained within the Irish seanfhocal. My mother, a fluent Irish speaker, enjoyed nothing more than a good natter as Gaeilge with a seanfhocal at her fingertips for every eventuality. A particular favourite, whenever a cold or any other ailment made its appearance, was ‘Is fearr [...]

Palin and Dobbs on Obama’s Health Care Plan for Enforced Euthanasia

An article by Donagh of Dublin Opinion • August 12th 2009

Palin and Dobbs on Obama’s Health Care Plan for Enforced Euthanasia
According to the Truth O-Meter Sarah Palin said this in a note posted on her Facebook page.

“As more Americans delve into the disturbing details of the nationalized health care plan that the current administration is rushing through Congress, our collective jaw is dropping, and we’re [...]

The Real News | Health Care or Disease Care?

An article by Donagh of Dublin Opinion • July 21st 2009

The Real News | Health care or disease care?
Paul Jay in conversation with Len Saputo and Byron Belitsos, authors of A Return to Healing: Radical Health Care Reform and the Future of Medicine about the virtues of the single payer option in the running of the US health care system. They also point out that [...]

Are FG’s FairCare Proposals a Boon for Private Health Insurance?

After Fine Gael announced its recent FairCare proposals for health service reform I contacted ILR contributor Dr. Gerry Burke, consultant obstetrician & gynaecologist in Limerick’s Regional and Maternity Hospitals and a vociferous campaigner against co-location to see what he thought of the proposals. I first asked him if the proposals would help improve patient outcomes [...]

The Appalling State of Irish Maternity Services

An article by Gerry Burke of Irish Left Review • September 24th 2008

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 Times (letter) to describe the situation. By budget time, it was already known that several large maternity hospitals had had [...]

Sins of the Father

Sins of the Father:

Tracing the Decisions

That Shaped the Irish Economy,

by Conor McCabe

from The History Press

Now Available as an e-Book.

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