American using Britain’s NHS (2015)

Re:American using Britain’s NHS (2015) by Scoundreller on Saturday March 03, 2018 @01:00PM (#16510539)

Granted it's from wiki, but 79% of 2010 Irish health care spending was by government. And part of that 21% will be from public system co-pays and levies that have nothing to do with private-run hospital visits.

Sounds like the public system provides the majority of care.

Any "public" system still has a private-tier available to anyone that can afford a plane ticket.

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Re:American using Britain’s NHS (2015) by lucideer on Saturday March 03, 2018 @01:13PM (#16510623)

Yeah, this is what I would've expected (hence the devil's advocate qualifier), which is why I think our life expectancy has other causal factors.

Although, one thing to note is the the government does invest in private hospitals as well, so that 79% figure won't be exclusively public healthcare. This is due to public-private-partnerships whereby a single site will accommodate both a public and private hospital with the entire project being funded by a combination of public and private funds, usually with an extremely favourable arrangement for the private side.

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