Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 October 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Health Insurance Sector: Discussion

12:35 pm

Photo of Billy KelleherBilly Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Will consultants or others in the health system put a patient into a bed because it is there? This is very important. Consultants have told me that if we go down the route of universal health insurance and hospital groupings, there will be an inducement to give people treatments they do not necessarily need because they will receive funding for it. We should be honest.

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