Surprise! Irish Health System is Lousy
Lest you get carried away with talk of Irish economic miracles, Irish Tigers, and Irish Dancing, and swing from believing Ireland has no electricity to believing Ireland is the home of electricity, a report published today, that elicited a lot of news in Ireland - and much of it using the word ’shame’ - showed that:
Ireland has come second-from-bottom in an EU league table of most consumer-friendly healthcare systems, and it has also been rated as having the poorest value for money in the EU in terms health consumer-friendliness
If you read Irish news every day - and why should should if you live in Missouri or Kansas? - well this would come as no surprise to you.
And what does the Irish Department of Health say? That the report doesn’t reflect improvements in waiting times, childhood vaccinations, GP service improvements, or legislation currently in progress, etc.
Well it does actually; it just shows that despite those improvements Ireland still ranks 25th out of 26 countries. Perhaps other countries are improving too, rather than waiting for the Irish to get their act together.
See Also:
• Ireland Spending on R&D To Get Richer
• Irish Catholics Today
• Irish Pay Deal & Migrants
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