Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

The health reform Bill promises new structures for the health service. Fine Gael is planning to hand the public health service into the control of private for-profit insurance companies. Only last night, we learned that the Fine Gael supporter and financier, honorary doctor and billionaire O'Brien has now taken over a major private hospital, the Beacon. Will there be anything public about the health service by the time Fine Gael and the Labour Party have finished with it? Does the Government intend to give the whole service over to vulture capitalists, as it is doing with just about everything else?

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