Yes, Christie. How do you intend to pay for NHI? You are currently raiding the National Insurance Fund for BoB and other unworthy causes, VAT is here and was supposed to be used to pay down our debt but you are talking mess about using it for infrastructure, now NHI? You people cannot manage the public health care system as it is. As a further insult, you parliamentarians either take yourselves to the expensive private hospital on island or to physicians abroad. Yinna don't have to go through what the rest of us do and yet you want to force something like this on us? Why should more of my money be snatched from me to pay for something like that? We barely get what we need through PHA now, and I DO NOT WANT YOU MAKING CHOICES FOR ME ON MY HEALTH CARE! Why are you always looking for ways to sink this country? Scrap that man! Barely making it around here now! Get accountable with BAMSI and other of the country's raped and wasted funds and return all that largesse to the public treasury, make HEALTHY foods affordable, promote exercise heavily and emphasize PREVENTION and thus avoid this nine to ten figure disaster that you are determined to shove down our throats. I and so many others are so sick of the ineptness and lack of accountability your government is. Retire man and call an early election. We need a coalition of business geniuses to run this country, not PLP, FNM or DNA. This crew needs to go tho and now.

Preach it girl!!!! Preach!!!

How can they implement a 600m NHI and they can't even pay COB lecturers the money they owe them, TODAY? cant pay service providers for months after service is rendered. Behind on utility bills. They are going to bankrupt us with all of their feel good initiatives.

Here is what I don't understand.......
Perry Christie and the PLP have always been an incompetent, corrupted, unaccountable, dishonest, lot. This has always been the legacy of the PLP (at least in the Bahamas I grew up in). So how in the world do bahamian people walk into their polling divisions and vote for this man as their leader??????? Seriously Bahamians??????
And then y'all want to complain when he and his party displays hapless leadership?????? C'mon Bahamians!!! This is who and what the PLP does best!! This is who they are!!!
Dogs bark..... Cats meow..... And the PLP steals, cheats, and is a bungling, dishonest, unaccountable, government!! As a matter of fact, they're nothing more than an extension of the Bahamian people.
In my opinion, the bahamian public are responsible for this mess.... because they are the ones who place Perry and the PLP in a position of power. So yinna deal wit it!! Ya gats 28 more months a dis foolishness ta go!!

BTW ........... how old are you????? Do your research on Pindling & 1984.

Can we talk about the mold in a building that is supposed to be for critically ill patients?

Perry put VAT on us ............. next year NIB will take 10% of our salary for national health insurance ............... then the shit ga hit da fan!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cobalt ........... I feel you ma bey

Cuz these red shirts heads as hard as cement block, they might need secure a bed in clinical care brain injuries ward. Luckily. Minnis is a doctor, doctor, so maybe he can analyze his own reds for explanation and interpretation.
Comrade Tribune bloggers, you unleashed on me for my comments on the hospital photo picturing PM Christie and he former law partner Papa. Why the complete flip flop up positions in less than 24 hours? Is this just an incurable red shirts blogging disability?
Yesterday you reds were all giddy head about, how this was a positive step where one government rather than criticizing the former, is giving credit pastachievements. Or, did I get jest of your blogs all wrong? Doubtful. Cuz if, I was out step, your leader Minnis was be all negative with his lambasting of PM Christie.
My blog comments, unlike your leader, were confined to the two smiling PM’s and the fact that Tribune’s story never even bothered mention Papa’s name, not even in picture’s caption. A cement block is crackable but no hope anything classified Papa spoiled red. Here they go again, upstaging their duly elected red leader? Thank God, Thank You Jesus, them remaining Papa reds are but a fill-a-phone booth sized bunch.

Get real. Minnis is dishonest and disingenuous. Anyone who has some idea about healthcare and its administration knows a hospital is more than a building. The equipment, staff and the operational components are challenging. Especially when Cavalier construction has noted the many vexing design changes. So Minnis needs to be honest. The critical care block is not a panacea to the problems of our healthcare system. We have a poorly run system with limited resources. Bahamians didn't want to pay taxes for years but want the best in healthcare technology. We have to get real and stop the political bull$#@t. Government after government has neglected the healthcare system and these jokers behave as if this is the answer to their problems. What about the family islands with years of neglect of education, healthcare and decent safe airports? Chew on that you donkey.

Comrade Stapedius I have had family members and friends up in Abaco, who came into this world and left go see Jesus, well hopefully, without ever setting eyes on medical practitioner, above da grade local nurse. Even nurse has disappeared. You die in morning and you is in hole before sundown. You'd be shocked at the occupations who has signed many death certificates. Comrades, if you want see all days your three score and ten - and is late sleeper - best you stay put in Nassau or Freeport. Most islanders never even seen no undertaker. Your Comrade family and friends does give you your last bath and if they really like you will chip in some coin build wooden box, lay you final rest.

Stapedius..... I honestly can't argue with your point. You are right. A hospital is more than just a building. Proper healthcare in the Bahamas will ultimately depend on hospital administrators and staff.
Building an extension to the PMH hospital will not alleviate the existing problems at the hospital if the healthcare system is not ran and managed properly.
But as we all know..... Bahamian people offer terrible customer service and are void of any complex management skills. Especially those who operate in the government system. So what good will it do the general public to have "state of the art" technology in the hospital, only to have incompetent, non-caring Bahamian staff members running it???
This new building won't change anything at the PMH. It's the hospital administrators and staff members who must initiate change. And we all know dat ain ga happen.

Renovating PMH is a better option right now than building a new PMH. Just look at what building the new LPIA airport, BTC, Bahamar etc has cost us .... sell out to Canadians, Brits and Chinese. Can we afford more???????