A health system with compassion?

Medical card changes

Our relatively new Minister for Health, Leo Varadkar, is a bit like Bovril – you either love him or can’t stand him. There is little or no in-between.

But even those who find the minister’s occasional cringe-making utterances hard to take must be inclined to acknowledge that he has taken on his new role with a degree of calm reassurance rarely seen among ministers for health.