Sir, – I have to take issue with Dr Reggie Spelman when he asserts (Letters, June 7th) that those with private health insurance have “never languished in a public hospital emergency department.”
Those who are forced to take out hugely expensive private health insurance, because the public service is dysfunctional, get no priority in a public emergency department.
They share the same languish.
– Yours, etc,
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