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Vhi appoints CEO from Dutch insurer
By Gary Culliton.
Are new players set to enter the Irish health insurance market?
John Savage of Beauchamps Solicitors looks at the possibilities of a more open insurance market in a time of great uncertainty for the sector.
Privatisation: too far to turn back?
IMO AGM 2012 Former IMO President Prof Seán Tierney analyses the false allure of a ‘privatised’ health service and examines whether the latest Titanic reforms will float or sink In 2012, much of what we have taken for granted in Ireland is under scrutiny.
Death of the Golden Goose
Dr Garrett FitzGerald says it’s perhaps time our public hospitals were taken away from the control of the HSE/Dept of Health and allowed to compete with their private brethren.
Health insurers criticise private beds charge hike
By Gary Culliton.
VHI criticises private beds charge hike
By Gary Culliton.
Shaft? You’re damn right
Dr Ruairi Hanley shines a light on the consequences for patient and GP of opting for a corporate private medical examination.
Requirement by insurers is bound to have major impact
Dear Editor, I am writing to you in response to Dr Marcus de Brun’s article of September 23, 2011 (‘Just don’t rock the sinking boat’, http://bit.
We’re forever blowing bubbles
With Ireland unable to afford its ballooning healthcare model, Dr Garrett FitzGerald believes only doctors can stop the whole health bubble from bursting in our faces.