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Dr John Crown on RTE Radio 1 this morning

  • 17-11-2007 8:39am
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    luckat
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    Dr John Crown, is Eamon Dunphy’s guest on Conversations with Eamon Dunphy this morning on RTE Radio 1 at 9.10am.

    Dr Crown says he intends to continue advocating for a better health system, “but in a more positive fashion,” announcing that he would be setting up a formal public advocacy campaign for an alternative healthcare model.

    In the programme he announced that he's starting a campaign to give Ireland the same type of health service that France, Germany, etc - the top-ranked medical services in Europe - have, a radically different model from the PDs' and FF's desired two-tier model.

    “It is my intention, and I’ll announce it now on your programme Eamon, to set up a formal public advocacy campaign to get as many political parties on board. I don’t care who they are. Fine Gael, Sinn Fein, anyone who is interested in the notion of single tier, universal access, social insurance based healthcare, à la the model which has recently, demonstrably, been shown to be the best in Europe in the five leading European countries, Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland and Holland.

    "In this model everyone has the same kind of insurance and they bring this insurance to them to whatever hospital, whoever it’s owned by. The key thing is it’s equal access, and people who are making a lot of money are subsidising people who don’t make a lot of money. You don’t pay a fixed premium, you pay a fixed percentage. Everyone would pay something like 5, 6, 8 per cent of their income to this… and they would subsidise those who are less well off. And I don’t think many people would object to this system. It would end the public-private apartheid we have at the moment.”

    If you're not famliar with John Crown, he's one of the two consultants (the other being Maurice Neligan), that Bertie Ahern attacked in the Dail, where Ahern is safe from all libel suits, of course...

    Podcast should be up here tomorrow: http://www.rte.ie/radio1/podcast/podcast_eamondunphy.xml


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