I'm irish and we have an incoherent public/private collage of health care, its a great idea but has been poorly managed and billions wasted , the system itself is probably best explained on wikipedia under "health care in the republic of ireland" our problem is not with insurance but the hospital quality , apart from some daft syatem we have called "risk equalisation" where companies with a younger healthier customer base have to pay compensation to ones with older "higher risk" customers , its a rule which forced one company out of our market (bupa) because they would have to pay millions to the (state run) vhi , its a great example of how stupidity can ruin everything

by PinkEyeTowlie on 12/18/2009 06:17:37 AM EST

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