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Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (24 Nov 2020): Paul Gavan: ...even years for treatment. Indeed, this weekend I spoke to two neighbours, one of whom is in his second year of waiting for a pain-killing injection, with no hope. Ironically, he is a former HSE worker. We are where we are because successive governments have driven, as a matter of policy, the privatisation of aspects of the health service and the commodification of health itself. We...

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