How would you sort out Hospital A&E Crisis - Long waiting times- trolleys in corridor's etc

On your seventh point in a lot of A and E the biggest percentage is as you say drink, drugs, Enda Kenny’s natives on medical cards, who take up a lot of the time and don’t care about genuine sick people. On your fourth point a friend son is a pharmacist and he was saying the amount of drugs that go out over the counter that won’t be taken in the full course and most of the people getting them are on a medical card and are there best customers by a country mile. If little Jonny and biddy has a runny nose off to the doctor and into the chemist for more drugs. To see the local doctor if not urgent it’s a three to four day waiting list for an appointment.

I was making the point that more qualifications does not make a better doctor which what you seem to be implying, there is a amount of art and intuition in medicine which no amount of education and qualifications can teach someone.

We overspend on healthcare, relative to the age profile of our population.

The main reason for this is that our prices for healthcare are so high.

So in return for a given spending, we get less volumes of healthcare.

One anecdote of how we spend so much is that GP in France charge 26.50.

Compare that to here!!!!

Another, we paid double what the UK paid to administer the COVID vaccine.

Here is some 2017 data from the OECD:

As a result of high prices, our volumes are not high:

many medical card holders only really have access to public services, some of which have long waiting lists, or services that dont actually exist, many of these, possible most, have in fact been a part of the workforce, some still are, some of course have been long term unemployed, and also baring in mind, even the unemployed pay taxes in the form of consumption based taxes....

...yup, this is also vey badly effecting those who have private health care insurance

...the whole thing is a mess, with very few, if anyone, truly receiving appropriate care....

where!

...i think we need to get away from this so called 'free' to, im sure you worked bloody hard all your life, and are still consuming, so, far from free..

look after yourself, id imagine ms is no fun...

...paid access is a disaster, the amount of people that bloody work hard, that simply cant pay to access their gp, is pretty damn high, thats not a functioning system!

this effectively means moving back towards a more public system overall, best of luck with trying to convince free market zealots with that one!

...yes this is what happened during covid, and yes it needed to happen, and yes it effectively worked, but again, best of luck with doing that, largely due to the above!

its always been known that curved buildings cost a fortune to build, so dont build them, build less curved ones!

yup, more apartments, again, best of luck with achieving that anytime soon.....

no glitch at all, but thank you...

how does forcing people to stay here, resolve our issues, seriously?

yea thats pretty fcuked alright, id say theres plenty of similar stories out there

It reduces the heavy workloads of nurses and doctors, currently we are recruiting from other countries to help the services and still cannot fill places.

Why should we not keep those who we support and train, (and educate with fairly low college fees being paid, plus grants) Let them pay back a little to the state before they go? Our hospitals are fine to train in, why not good enough to work in for a set time?

The more doctors and nurses we have in the system, the more patient turnaround.