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Seanad: Harmful and Malicious Electronic Communications Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

John Crown: ...after the dawn of the Enlightenment that rolled back many of the darknesses that had enveloped people for so long. A Jewish person might fervently believe that he or she has a right to live in Israel according to ethnic or religious beliefs, with which one may or may not agree. Some people have stated this belief, called Zionism, is a form of racism. I do not believe that, anymore than...

Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)

John Crown: ...tanked. The Minister should consider the countries that spend more than does Ireland on health care at present. Are they failed states with failing economies? I am referring to Canada, Germany and Israel, which faces an entirely different set of challenges that gobble up its GDP. There are examples of countries which have been shown to make it work, such as Switzerland. We can and...

Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Dec 2014)

John Crown: ...an advocate for a model of universal insurance in this country with competing companies, most of which, I would hope, would be not for profit. I am a great believer of models such as the ones that exist in Germany, Israel and several of the other countries of north-west Europe of dependence on a model of social insurance where the profit motive is not what drives the insurance companies...

Seanad: Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Sep 2014)

John Crown: ...she can take to the doctor or hospital of his or her choice. This instrument may be administered by a state-run insurance company similar to the VHI or some of the non-for-profit health systems in Canada, Israel and elsewhere. Some of the entities involved may be private concerns but they should only be allowed to enter the market on the proviso that they play by the same rules, namely,...

Seanad: Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Second Stage (3 Jul 2014)

John Crown: ...doctors. It will not be legally acceptable for any institution to cherry-pick and say it will take only people with a certain type of insurance. I hope there will be - as in countries such as Israel, which has an advanced version of this model - a basket of basic services. If one goes to the insurance market, insurers must provide certain services. There is no negotiation on them, and...

Seanad: Health Insurance (Reform) Bill 2014: Second Stage (25 Jun 2014)

John Crown: ...the same service. It will also have the effect of de-bureaucratising the system. The Minister must study carefully the successful models in place in Canada, which has a single payer system, and Israel, which has a number of not-for-profit insurance companies and one or two for-profit companies. Above all, he must examine the German system under which not-for-profit insurers compete with...

Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2012)

John Crown: ...over any other in terms of access to health care and obliges every hospital and doctor to regard patients equally because of this solitary transferable insurance instrument. That is the system in Israel which has a number of not-for-profit health systems that compete against each other. It is the system in place in Canada where there is one provincial health insurer to which everybody...

Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)

John Crown: ...principle should involve a mixture with some for-profit insurance companies and some not-for-profit social insurance companies of the type that exists in many countries, such as Canada, Germany and Israel. In truth, this is the type that exists in this country in the form of the VHI. In seeking to impose the deadline, we are aware that the Minister will be an axe-wielding huntsman...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2012)

John Crown: .... I thought for a moment that I had strayed into a class on the classics, until I realised that he was referring to the Faroes, which are somewhat different to the ones who led the children of Israel into slavery. There is nonetheless some current relevance to this because Senator Norris was alluding to the fact that the Greeks raised an army of 300 men who stood shoulder to shoulder at...