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Tue 08 Aug 2009Learning from a legacy
The McCarthy report recommends cuts of about €1 billion to health services. But will such measures leave a legacy as damaging as the cuts of the 1980s, asks CARL O’BRIEN, Social Affairs Correspondent
AS POLITICAL slogans go, it was devastatingly effective. “Health cuts hurt the old, the sick and the handicapped. Vote Fianna Fáil,” urged the billboards, which flooded the country in the weeks before the 1987 general election.
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