![]() Insurance does not run out when you are sick, and unlike the postman, the VHI does not ring even once. I am appalled by what I have encountered in my rare rescue consults in private hospitals, the nadir of which was a senior nurse telling an ill, vulnerable patient that the VHI was ringing daily to say the patient’s insurance had run out. In addition, public hospitals, while not perfect, tend to have a better sense of the need to attend to the rehabilitative elements of hospital stay and may have a longer stay (and more pressure on profits) than the treat-and-street philosophy of private hospitals. The chutzpah and cheek of these executives, bringing out their tiny violins for what most viewed as concern over pressure on profits rather than a deep-rooted sensibility to the rights of their subscribers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Irish healthcare consumers are clearly slow learners, requiring several iterations of being fooled before accepting their shame from the perpetrator. Thirty-three million dollars could buy a lot of health services. Obviously not from thin air, so presumably it came either from present and future insurers, or else strategic structuring of debt – in the final analysis, from us taxpayers.
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