The Minister for Health is expected to tell the Cabinet this morning that the benefits of universal health insurance would not outweigh the costs.
- Advertisement -
Leo Varadkar is set to inform Ministers of research that shows his predecessor's proposals would cost 650 million euro a year – and nearly half the population would pay premiums of over two thousand euro a year, without a subsidy.
The Irish Times says the former Minister for Health James Reilly's much-publicised plan may now be postponed until late into the Government's second term – if re-elected.
