Ireland Considering Obamacare-Style Universal Health Insurance

In an earlier Valuewalk article, we examined how the Irish government was allowing the cost of health insurance in Ireland to spiral out of control, while simultaneously introducing legislation that was hampering competition in the sector. Now it seems ‘Obamacare’, or the Affordable Care Act in the US, signed into law by President Obama, may be about to cross the Atlantic. Ireland: Replicating instead of revolutionising Minister for Health, Dr. James Reilly and his Department officials have drawn up a White Paper on Universal Health Insurance (UHI) under which everyone in Ireland would be required to have private health insurance…