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Wed 07 Jul 2008Healthcare now facing crisis point
OPINION:IF THERE is any silver lining to last week's Supreme Court decision on risk equalisation, it is in the probability that co-location is now also a dead duck, writes David Begg
This highly ideological plan to move the delicate public-private hybrid that is the Irish healthcare model aggressively in the direction of private provision is predicated on the affordability of health insurance. It seems inevitable that the absence of risk equalisation will undermine community rating and put health insurance beyond the reach of older people.
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