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Fri 08 Aug 2008Politics of hospital co-location
Madam, - My referral of the co-location agreement between the HSE and the Beacon Medical Group to the Competition Authority has been criticised by Michael Cullen, Beacon's CEO, who describes me as "obviously politically motivated" (The Irish Times, August 26th). Of course I am. Politics has profound effects on health outcomes. Democracy, wealth-distributive ideologies and the availability of universal healthcare heave all been shown to be associated with lower infant mortality and longer life expectancy.
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