Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is not something we are proposing to do. As far as public hospitals are concerned, however, all patients will continue to receive the same medicines whether they have health insurance or not and no matter who they are insured by. The best system would be a single system of approvals, with the European Medicines Agency, EMA, deciding on a European-wide basis which medicines are approved for use and setting a fair price as to reimbursement.

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