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Varadkar To Delay Universal Health Insurance Scheme

The Health Minister's delaying the introduction of the controversial universal health insurance scheme.

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It's currently supposed to be in place by 2019 but Leo Varadkar has decided that date is too ambitious.

The cost of a standard package had been estimated at nearly €1,700, but the state was expected to subsidise that for some people, or even cover the whole cost in other cases.

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