You want change? Use your vote

I WAS horrified to read about the waiting time endured for a colonoscopy (Irish Examiner, January 11). I also congratulate you for printing the letter from “Rosie”.

The problem is that we either do not care, or feel it is inappropriate to complain. Bertie Ahern calls himself a socialist. Fidel Castro is a socialist; he runs a top-class health service in Cuba on the same budget as it costs to run the Beaumont Hospital here.

The problems that existed 10 years ago still exist. It is just that those suffering with those problems have been muzzled by an unsympathetic society. The middle classes have expanded courtesy of cheap credit. The Government has never had so much money to play with. Why, then, do we have so much unhappiness, stress, ill-health and a third world health service?