Universal Health Insurance: Plan could have broken laws and cost families €5,000
The situation was revealed in three independent reports into the now sidelined policy last night as Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Health Minister Leo Varadkar denied the Coalition has been forced into an embarrassing climbdown.
Under the 2011 programme for government, the Coalition was due to replace the existing two-tier public-private health service with universal access to all supports.
