Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion
Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I suspect it does not but we have no way of knowing. This pokes a hole in the argument that we will fall off the edge of a cliff if that income is taken away. The full extent of that income is not known because the level of subsidy cannot be identified. This is a problem.
As for this State being an outlier, are there other examples from well-developed countries of people doing what we do in respect of the mix of private and public patients? Internationally speaking, is the model we operate with its mix of public and private patients an outlier?
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