Health insurance - Services need to be equitable

ONE of our great failures is that our health system does not treat us all equally.

If you have private insurance cover you can, or so we have come to believe, get attention when you need it, not when our too often over-stretched, top-heavy, trolley-dependent health service might provide it.

It is easy to criticise this system, especially for those who rightly advocate that everyone should get health services more or less as soon as a problem is identified. Just like the service Susie Long needed to save her life but was denied.