Health spending and insatiable demands

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What is striking is that 21 per cent of government expenditure goes to our healthcare system

) on a paper prepared by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform comparing Irish health expenditure with that in other countries.

This is the second-highest in the OECD, which is counter-intuitive given that we have a relatively young population. I wonder if the authors of the paper have been reading Anatole Kaletsky who in 2010 wrote in Capitalism 4.0: “The dark, almost unmentionable, secret that will haunt British politics is that the National Health Service has become an incubus, sucking the life out of all other public services which have to be starved of funds to meet the insatiable demands of the NHS.

 

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