The politician who can fix health service

There is a politician who could fix the health service. She does not currently hold public office, but maybe she will someday, writes Michael Clifford.

She is badly needed. The health system requires a lot of fixing. It is not, however, in crisis. One might be led to believe that a situation in which a record number of 714 people languished on trolleys last Monday is a crisis. One could suggest that the needless pain and stress suffered by citizens in a highly-developed, wealthy country is a crisis.

Unfortunately, it’s not. A crisis is something that demands immediate attention. A crisis is attacked with radical action. In national terms, a crisis forces most of the population to give serious attention and possibly sacrifice to the issue at hand.