They can’t even build a children’s hospital

Even though in his speech to the Fine Gael Árd Fheis last weekend, Enda Kenny was quite certain that there is no alternative to Universal Health Care, (how often have we been told there is no alternative only to find out too late that there was and it was a better alternative), he might like to be informed about a recent milestone.

They can’t even build a children’s hospital

Aneurin Bevan became Minister for Health in the new Labour government that took power in the UK following the end of World War II, on 3 August 1945. Yet, despite bitter opposition from the vested interests of the British Medical Organisation, he still managed to have the British National Health Service, which is funded from a specific National Insurance tax, and operates on the principle of being free at the point of use to everyone, regardless of income, without any of the administrative burden, duplication and waste of the half-hearted Universal Healthcare system Mr Kenny proposes, come into being on 5 July 1948, or 1,067 days after the government took office.

This Fine Gael/Labour government has been in office since 9 March 2011, or 1,089 days, but it can’t even manage to build a children’s hospital, that has been in the making for over 20 years.

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