> Ireland does not have complex public health service like the NHS. Where exactly did you get that idea? As bbrazil wrote, that's certainly not the case. We al

> Ireland does not have complex public health service like the NHS. Where exactly did you get that idea? As bbrazil wrote, that's certainly not the case. We also spend more on healthcare per head here in Ireland than is spent in the UK. We have one of the highest spends in the OECD and a complex legacy of the pre-independence healthcare system plastered over almost a century of half-hearted reforms to deal with. People in Ireland envy the NHS for three reasons: compared to the Irish 'system', it's cheap and relatively simple, and the outcomes are better than our more expensive hodge-podge.