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It might not be feasible to have comprehensive universal healthcare given the private-public divide

Dear Editor, I have emigrated twice.

Lloyd Mudiwa reflects on the prospect of more cuts in next month’s Budget further running down the capacity of the Irish health service.

By Lloyd Mudiwa.

With commercial rates a significant outlay for doctors, Solicitor Peter Dempsey BCL examines how you might best ‘gather feathers with the least hissing’.

Dear Editor, Years ago, if you got sick you could just get sicker and leave the outcome up to mother nature, or if you had the shillins you could visit the surgeon-barber and perhaps live a bit longer, albeit in the same conditions that probably made you sick in the first place.