Medical card 'bias' emerges in new figures

Reported by Irish Times on Tuesday, 17 November 2009 (on November 17, 2009)

PEOPLE LIVING in the northeast and in north Dublin are much less likely to be granted discretionary medical cards than individuals living in other parts of the State, it has emerged.

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