Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

The average household is paying between €4,500 and €5,500 of its income per year for this wonderful health system the Minister cites. Half of the Dutch hospitals are bankrupt. Half a million people in the Netherlands do not have any insurance cover at all. It is not better. It is stealth privatisation, and we reject it. We want a national health service.

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