Health cuts - Patients will pay cost of cutbacks

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.

Health cuts - Patients will pay cost of cutbacks

This will mean that your aging but proud parents, your feverish, crying child, your wife or husband, or maybe a sister with breast cancer, will discover how unfortunate they are to have been born in country with a contracting, two-tier health system.

If, like Susie Long, you throw yourself at the mercy of the public system you are, literally, taking your life in your hands. And, remember Susie Long’s ordeal and death came long before the money ran out so it is rational to assume that there will be many more Susie Longs before this crisis passes. Shame on us all.

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