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Yes, it shouldn't be a situation that that's the way it is, that you can't have the same doctor throughout your pregnancy.
And there's no point in her saying it should be available.
You hung on to that word, should.
And you're absolutely right.
I want her to explain that.
Because it should be that every child who needs scoliosis surgery gets it.
It should be that every handicapped child gets it.
It should be that there's care for people who are old and infirm.
All these 48% of people who go into public hospitals and who have private health insurance,
they actually also are entitled to public health.
So paying on the double, like women who have babies in Hollow Street and Rotunda today, they're paying money into that hospital as taxpayers.
They're also getting every bed in a public hospital, by the way, to VHI is a more expensive cost than it is in a private hospital, because I've looked into that.
So the three days that women are paid
Because that's three days is what PHI and Leia and all pay for when a woman has a baby, unless she has a section.