{"id":519692,"date":"2026-06-26T15:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/519692\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T15:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:32:11","slug":"slaintecare-and-the-loss-of-income-from-private-patients-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/519692\/","title":{"rendered":"Sl\u00e1intecare and the loss of income from private patients \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir, \u2013 Sam Coulter-Smith (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/letters\/2026\/06\/24\/private-and-public-medical-care\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/letters\/2026\/06\/24\/private-and-public-medical-care\/\">Letters<\/a>, June 24th) suspects that one of the unintended consequences of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/slaintecare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/slaintecare\/\">Sl\u00e1intecare<\/a> is that there will be a funding gap to the exchequer from the loss of private <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/hospitals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/hospitals\/\">patient<\/a> activity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">But, to set the record straight, this was fully costed in the original Sl\u00e1intecare report and debated and understood by the Oireachtas committee members. It comes as no surprise and is the cost of a universal healthcare system &#8230; which is what we really want. \u2013 Yours, etc<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">STEVE THOMAS,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Edward Kennedy chair of health policy and management,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Trinity College Dublin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir, \u2013 Sam Coulter-Smith (Letters, June 24th) suspects that one of the unintended consequences of Sl\u00e1intecare is that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60,1422],"class_list":["post-519692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-slaintecare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}