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The medical card scheme was administered by county councils until the newly created Health Boards took over in 1970; these in turn were replaced by the HSE in 2005. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Until the Irish financial crisis of 2008, persons aged over 70 were automatically entitled to free medical cards.
Many political parties support extending the availability of the Medical Card to eventually cover every resident in Ireland – they currently cover 31.9% of the population. Those on slightly higher incomes are eligible for a 'GP Visit Card' which entitles the holder to free general practitioner visits.
The reduction in infant mortality between 1960 and 2008 for Ireland in comparison with France, Switzerland, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Life expectancy at birth in Ireland. In 2005: [4] [5] 47.6% of Ireland's population were covered by private health insurance, and 31.9% of the population were covered by Medical Cards.
Prior to the advent of the health board system, the Health Act 1947 was the principal legislation on the State's role in the provision of healthcare in Ireland; [2] this was the act that served as the legislative basis for the Mother and Child Scheme, which was later withdrawn under Church and medical opposition.
Prior to the announcement of the government budget on 14 October 2008, each person over the age of seventy living in the Republic of Ireland was entitled to a medical card providing free medical, dental and optical treatment and medicines. The budget proposed to change this and introduced a means-tested system of benefits.
The Health Service Executive, responsible for Healthcare in the Republic of Ireland; Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland (part of the United Kingdom National Health Service) The existence of the two different systems is seen as a major obstacle to Irish unification by Social Democratic and Labour Party politicians.
During 2020 and 2021, as part of Ireland's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, paramedics from the Army Medical Corps assisted in staffing ambulances with the HSE National Ambulance Service and Dublin Fire Brigade in order to increase capacity, [5] Medical Corps personnel also formed part of the national testing and contact tracing programme ...
The Department of Health (Irish: An Roinn Sláinte) is a department of the Government of Ireland.The department's mission is to "support, protect and empower individuals, families and their communities to achieve their full health potential by putting health at the centre of public policy and by leading the development of high quality, equitable and efficient health and personal social services."