Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I am trying to answer the question Deputy McGrath put to me and he is not accepting it. We have a not-for-profit model insurance company already. Fully 40% of people already have voluntary health insurance. It is not an option to eradicate an insurance model and go back to the British national health system as if we had a clear landscape. We are looking for a system whereby there will be multiple choice within a not-for-profit insurance system to enable us to get the right kind of care and not the kind of high-cost insurance model that exists in the United States.

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