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The implementation of the government of Ireland\u2019s 10 year health reform (SlainteCare) moves the country towards universal, single-tiered healthcare, where patients are treated on medical need rather than ability to pay.<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”TO BE EDITED – TEXT OF THE NEWS – BLOCK 1 – Click on the WHEEL icon to open the textarea where you can paste or type your news. PLEASE USE ONLY THE FEATURED IMAGE FUNCTION on your right column to add the image.” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||1em||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n In 2022, public funds covered 77% of total current health expenditure, while private insurance covered 12% and out of pocket expenditure the remaining 11%. The confirmation of the new Taoiseach (prime minister) Simon Harris, previously Minister of Health between 2016-2020 may forshadow additional political will supporting the SlainteCare goals.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”TO BE EDITED – TEXT OF THE NEWS – BLOCK 2 – Click on the WHEEL icon to open the textarea where you can paste or type your news. PLEASE USE ONLY THE FEATURED IMAGE FUNCTION on your right column to add the image.” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The implementation of the government of Ireland\u2019s 10 year health reform (SlainteCare) moves the country towards universal, single-tiered healthcare, where patients are treated on medical need rather than ability to pay.In 2022, public funds covered 77% of total current health expenditure, while private insurance covered 12% and out of pocket expenditure the remaining 11%. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1575,"featured_media":987686777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[122,3046],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987686774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987686774"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987686774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987687185,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987686774\/revisions\/987687185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987686777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987686774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987686774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987686774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}