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Kieran Allen delves into the establishment spectacle of condemnation surrounding Luigi Mangione, who has gained folk hero status after allegedly assassinating Brian Thompson, the CEO of United Health Care. Allen explores the morally bankrupt world of private health insurance, where companies like United Health Care prioritise profit over people’s
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Jo Tully argues that the upcoming industrial action by health service workers could overturn the legacy of the austerity years and mark the beginning of a fight-back against the deep crisis of our health service. The trade unions including FORSA and the INMO are in the process of balloting
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Goretti Horgan explains how decades of underfunding and creeping privatisation has undermined the once treasured NHS. During the COVID crisis, People before Profit and others initiated a campaign for an All-Ireland NHS. The reasoning was simple: Covid-19 plunged the health and social care systems, north and south of
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Throughout the pandemic, the establishment have been quick to call frontline health workers “heroes”. Junior doctor Eóin Ó Murchú argues that lip-service is not enough, and COVID has put a spotlight on treatment of health staff in Ireland. The arrival of SARS‐CoV‐2 in Ireland brought the capacity
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Writing on behalf of the All-Ireland NHS campaign, Chris Carroll analyses the limits of the current plan for fixing healthcare: Sláintecare. He argues the lessons of history show that instead of its technical approach we need a broad movement to win a 32-county universal healthcare system. “Medicine is
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Despite the heroic efforts of overworked and underpaid frontline workers, the pandemic has exposed the sorry state of health services north and south. Conor Reddy argues that the case for an All-Ireland National Health Service has never been stronger. As Covid-19 case numbers rise and hospitals once again
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The current pandemic has thrown a long overdue spotlight on our health system, and how we care for people more generally. Physiotherapist Maeve O’Neill looks at the changes needed for a more healthy – and humane – society. Only a few months ago in the North, healthcare unions were on industrial