This appeared in an article by Gene Kerrigan recently:
Yes, itās time for my favourite Brendan Howlin quote again. I may have this tattooed on my forehead.
After Brendan spent two years as Minister for Health, the reality of what his government was doing dawned on him. In order to maximise the private health insurance market, the government āreally required the public system to be inferiorā, explained Brendan. āWhy else, if it was first rate, would people pay for a private system?ā
Itās a disgrace that thatās what we subject people that canāt afford private care to, the Brits have got one thing right at least.
There wouldnt be such waiting lists if PUBLIC doctors werenāt spending so much time doing private practice.
Also its pretty alarming that they use public facilities funded by the tax payer to do so.
Most tax payers have private health Insurance. They pay twice and subsidize the rest of the users.
Youād want your head examined not to have private health insurance in Oireland. Just in case you ever need to have your head examined.
Best of luck to your young man Juhy, I hope it works out for him.
Itās not getting easier. Recently Iāve developed a new issue with my blind eye. Iāve started developing blisters on it. The specialists who have looked at it over the last few weeks canāt explain why itās happening and have fuck all solutions for it other than eye drops a few times a day to keep it all moist.
So hereās what hapens when I get a blister on my eye. It has generally happened at least once a week for the last 8 or so weeks.
I feel something pop on my eye and then it feels like I have a shard of glass or a stone in my eye. My nose starts running and tears flood from my eye. Itās very painful to blink. Itās very painful to close the eye. Itās very painful to open the eye. To the extent that I have to sit down as I feel like Iām going to faint (Iāve never fainted in my life). This can last a few hours or in the case of last week, 4 days. Hasnāt affected my sleep thankfully as Iām so fucking busy with work and life Iām fucked at the end of the day. Real problem in work that Iām learning to adapt to, as I really am incredibly busy in work at the moment.
Iām waiting for it to go off in the middle of a 35ās game sometime. A hammy or dodgy knee can be explained but theyād think Iām pulling the piss with this one.
Seeing another specialist soon, I think Iām just going to have to learn to manage this
Itās incredibly frustrating.
Jaysus, that sounds rough pal. Have you tried shovā¦no, no Chucks. I get really dry contact lenses so I can really equate to your painful blisters.
Jaysus
Hope the specialist sorts it out a chara
How did that eye get damaged in the first place fitzy?
That sound wicked pal. Hope you recover soon.
Jaysus boss sounds rough, hope it clears up soon.
Sorry to hear that mate, rinse your eye out with salt water three times a day for three days and that should clear it up for you.
Iām serious about the salt water.
We should have putting a claim in after what happened my father but not getting into it. Just simply shocking.
Get a complaint form at the least. Thereās cunts in there that get away with all sorts and if people donāt complain in writing they wonāt be challenged and wonāt change.
It happened over 15 years ago when he was getting a triple bypass. Too late for forms now id say bud.
Here. Tell you what it is. Theyāll coke you til the eyeballs on the NHS. But youāve gotta sign up for the big programme. Dilemma city USA squared. Go fig
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