THE VHI’s 1.5 million customers face an increase in charges of 8% next month.

THE Health Service Executive spent yesterday trying to cut e1 billion from their budget. This will mean sick people will be denied services or at the very least have to wait even longer for attention.

ENOUGH is enough, it’s time for our Health Minister Mary Harney to resign.

IT IS unimaginable that in Ireland a mother of two might die at 41 because of she did not have private healthcare insurance, yet that is what happened to Susie Long, who was buried yesterday.