Ms Cliona Loughnane:

With universal health insurance, an attempt was made to develop a health care basket. This is one way to define what one wants from a universal system in the context of what and who will be covered. One approach the committee could take would be to examine what would be included in a health care basket. This has some benefits. It could consider how long people would be covered for rehabilitation and what out of pocket payments, if any, would be made.

There are other ways to do it. The UK has clinical guidelines developed by NICE, which decides the clinical outcome that should be achieved and the health trust then decides whether it can provide a particular treatment based on whether it meets the clinical guidelines.