The E125 A&E charge is an absolute disgrace and will lead to people staying away from A&E when they need to go. It would be justiable if we had a 24 hour GP service but we don't. When poeple stay away who need treatment, the get sicker and eventually require longer stay in hospital, which costs the HSE ewven more. Likewise from an increase in the DPS threshold - it hits the mosgt vulnerable the hardest. Similar with an increase in the cost of private beds in public hospitals. This will push up the cost of health insurance and push more people onto a public system which cannot cope.

They dont have a clue - these bloody experts. What are they trying to do - sink us totally?

I was not going to reply to this but alas I could not, with out replying. As I see it (and I will be very brief which is unusal for me)The HSE is without a doubt going backward's in order to fill the purse so they can in the future,and I mean future? not this generation, but our grandchildern's,(if our health is compromised we might not have any grandchildern)?Only if the purse is over flowing (looking at what's going on)will we see a different, more workable Health system, that will take care of our young and elderly. Sadely a lot of us (my family and your's) except the very rich will be dead from lack of care, or should it be (who give's a care)I think it is the business men and women, and this new stupid Gouvermental departments that are making the patients pay for their mistakes!It is the usually suffer now and be happy later, well later is to late!It has being going on for years, they show you a new hospital or ward (just to stop us moanin but they never tell you what did they close down to make those new wards etc.Penny pinching is not going to keep us alive.That is why more and more people are turning to complementry or alternative medician.Prove's that we are going back in time. Also they keep going back on their word??? Take the glasses off and see your neibours suffering,and think of why our Doctors and Nurses trained so hard for it certaintly wasn't the get rich quick scheme, they way they are treated it would not supprise me if they up'ed and left the country, O' sorry the very poor Country. They soon will be asking Bono to rais the money for the HSE like he has done in other poor Countries. Now that was short?Wasn't it.