Hospital inpatient charges for public patients – €80 per night, for those who need overnight hospital stays – to be scrapped
Hospital inpatient charges for public patients – €80 per night, for those who need overnight hospital stays – will be scrapped as part of the cost-of-living package @VirginMediaNews
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) February 10, 2022
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Well that’s a huge saving for me. Completely reduces the cost of living
Average length of a stay in hospital here with covid was 10-18 days, depending on if you needed to critical care or if it was just a general hospital bed. PDF: https://assets.gov.ie/125771/11f37052-d28e-4cde-b747-99e59be75ca3.pdf
That’s a direct cost of €800 to €1280 on average.
I don’t know what the case is with step-down facilities.
Oh great! So I won’t have to shop around for the health insurance I wasn’t able to afford anyway. Grand👍
Well thank fuck for that, cant wait until the next time i go to hospital so i can save €80…. These lads are on a different planet altogether
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This is great actually. I’m very lucky to have never needed a hospital stay but this will take financial pressure off of a lot of people during some of their toughest times.
Can we not tell the Americans about this one. I think between the fact that a stay was only 80 and now that’s been removed might be too much for them