Prescription for failure

There is no coherent strategy for universal health insurance, there is no Government consensus, and, in light of swingeing health cuts, any commitment seems disingenuous, says Ray Kinsella.

Universal Health Insurance has, from the outset, been the centrepiece of Fine Gael’s, and the Coalition’s health strategy, going back to the Programme for Government in 2011.

A system of Universal Health Insurance will be introduced by 2016, with the legislative and organisational groundwork for the system complete within this Government’s term of office