Health chiefs in fantasy world

Claims patients will not pay for HSE overspends are wrong — care will be hit if costs are cut, writes Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

YOU might have missed it, but yesterday millennia of basic maths, science and common sense — which is, as always, uncommon — was found to be based on a tissue of lies. It turns out two minus two is not zero, every action does not have an equal but opposite reaction and you can keep cutting costs without spending less.

Step forward the health service.