Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The people were promised that there would be a universal health model introduced. They were promised the Dutch model. There has not even been a White Paper in that regard.

People were promised the sun, the moon and the stars and that this would be a painless approach to accessing health services and funding health services. The Dutch model was held out as the great solution to all our ills. We still do not know whether people who have health insurance now would pay less under the Dutch model or whether people on medical cards would be paying more. Where do the 20% stand who have neither health insurance nor the medical card?

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