The health service needs to change and now is the time

IN his recent thoughtful article on Universal Health Insurance published in the Irish Examiner, Ray Kinsella acknowledges that the Department of Health has “undertaken a huge volume of preparatory work” to underpin the introduction of UHI.

However, he argues that now is not the moment for radical reform of the health system. It is a time, he states, “to work with what is in place”.

I respectfully disagree.