Two-tier health system is the aim

THE Government is not bidding to smash the two-tier health system, as you claim in your editorial (Irish Examiner, April 12).

It wants totally to segregate the public and the private system and thereby further institutionalise the two-tier structure.

Developers have been given significant tax incentives by Government to develop private hospital facilities. This has led to the opening of a number of new hospitals in Dublin, Galway and Waterford.