A perennial source of crisis in Irish politics is the health system. It accounts for about one quarter of total government spending. And it is always vulnerable to accidents and to things going wrong. Even though she may have known nothing about the conditions that led to the accidents, The Minister for Health will be held politically responsible. And even if there are no clinical disasters to provoke a public recoil reaction, there is always the cost of the New National Children’s Hospital to keep Jennifer Carroll MacNeill on her toes.
Slagging off the health system is one of those games where the whole family can join in. The system’s flaws are simply too obvious. Private discussions about the health system have the reassuring quality of finding us nearly all on the same side of the argument – we must be right!
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