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wondering what happens when all of a sudden everyone is covered, and then people start going to the doctors more often, how long will it take to expand health services to accommodate the increase in traffic. Have they estimated the increases in traffic, have the estimated the required increase in facilities, or will this become a joke like the Health Care in Canada where people wait a year to see a doctor?

Wait a year, who sold you on that ? If you know not what you speak of, then say nothing! You can be anywhere in the country and if you need medical attention you will see a doctor in a reasonable time frame , meaning 30 to 90 minutes.

which country?

this is not true in areas of Canada where there is a shortage of doctors. As some specialists retire, the remaining ones take on big loads and you wait time to see an endocrinologist can be 2 months.

Who will often send you to a specialist or for expensive tests. Its you who are living in a dream world.

name the country. name the country where :

-no one goes to specialists
-no waiting list for specialized health care.

Canada is not it. England is not it(some English have dental work done here in the Bahamas to avoid waiting lists

Name the country because i have google.

i feel sorry for this fella, having to do this dirty job.

the health insurance goes up significantly with age. people have it when they do not need it, ie when they are young and healthy.

as soon as you get a large claim, or reach the age of 60, they jack up the premium.

a person over 60 will be assessed $600 per month and takes up most of their national insurance pension, so they drop out.

for the evryday people, they get assessed extra for any preexisting condition: overweight, high blood pressure, you name it.

it is a ripoff.

In The Bahamas, there is collusion between insurers, bankers, doctors, pharmacies and lawyers ........ it is expected that BIA (Komolofe) will balk at any idea of the government cutting into their generous profit margins .............. this time the ordinary citizen will benefit but we have to be careful of the political "pork" involved ............. who bets the big medical contracts

komolafe was on TV saying the govt has to 'analyse what drives the cost of medical care".

Hello, the insurance companies do, for one.

he also is deathly afraid of capitation, because docotor will limit the amount paid per visit.

So we propose a tax on vehicle insurance -- Is that before or after VAT. A sin tax, what a joke when you see DUTY FREE liquor signs all over the place when in actuality liquor is much cheaper in the States. Home brewed national beer at $53 a case is just unbelievable and we are reaching the point of diminishing returns whereby customers simply stop buying anything but essentials.
How about a hook tax, given that Exuma normally has between 3-500 boats moored in and around the harbor during the winter months .Say $5.00 a night X an average of 400 boats is $2000 X 7 roughly$56,000 a month. Provide one or two people with A small power boat to collect and there is income for the country. Multiply that by other islands and it is quite sizable. How about enforcing a tax on holiday home rentals.
OH I forgot this takes a real interest, some organizing and monitoring. Sorry so stupid lets just tax the working class again until all the lights are off and citizens are starving.

**The insurance & Medical Industries Are Copartners To Ripping Off Insured Individuals**

There is no secret that insurance companies and doctors universally work hand in glove to scam patients out of as much monies as possible.

Anyone regularly attending doctors knows every doctors visit registration form asks whether the individual is covered by insurance.

I've proven if you answer "yes" the doctor is apt to order more test, prescribe more medicines and generally beef up the bill more than if a "no" answer is given.

Local insurance companies are also guilty of grossly exorbitant rates and fraudulently charging premiums. When a person tries using the coverage the insurer claims the individual had preexisting conditions or finds any number of reasons which to exempt the insured from payments in as many cases as possible.

How was the CLICO fiasco even remotely possible if insurance companies weren't actually scam artist in the first instance? And they got away with it too!

Unquestionable Mr. Christie has done a lot of dumb nonsense these past 3 years, but proposing a National Health Insurance scheme is by no means one of them, and a very badly needed program in our country.

Christie biggest problems selling NHI to thinking Bahamians is how he plans to deal with the Haitian element presently hogging up 75% of available medical services without paying for it today!

Whereas I totally and absolutely agree we must initiate a NHI scheme as soon as possible to better help those that cannot help themselves. I certainly am not going to agree to paying a NHI tax that benefits Haitians ongoing abuse of my tax dollars.

I strongly suggest Christie take a page from Britain P.M. Camerons' solution for immigrants accessing social services. Which is immigrants must show proof of paying into the system for 4 years before being considered eligible for social and or medical services.

Christie would do governments purse, Bahamians and all those legally entitled to social and medical services a tremendous favor by making it mandatory NOW for anyone receiving social services to firstly be legally in the country AND secondly a participant to NIB for minimum 4 year period.

This would put an immediate end to Haitians and other parasites abusing and overburdening our social services.

**Lets see if Christie simply follows P.M. Cameron, or if he pulls another failed attempt of "reinventing of the wheel" with his usual dump stunts!**

> Anyone regularly attending doctors
> knows every doctors visit registration
> form asks whether the individual is
> covered by insurance.
>
> I've proven if you answer "yes" the
> doctor is apt to order more test,
> prescribe more medicines and generally
> beef up the bill more than if a "no"
> answer is given

That is so true. I can get my prescription glasses withou insurance for $390, which includes special mad-to order lenses. With insurance, he charges $710 and the co-pay was $270. Do i save money? no cause the insurance rate is over $300 per month. i dropped it a while ago.

> Christie biggest problems selling NHI
> to thinking Bahamians is how he plans
> to deal with the Haitian element
> presently hogging up 75% of available
> medical services without paying for it
> today!

that irks evrybody.
what irks me is that the bloody civil servants also hog the services and get it for free. no one remembers that.

I can hardly afford groceries at this point and have cut back in a major way on EVERYTHING. If the government wants to tax me more I will be going to social services for a card and will end up on the dole. This makes no sense. Have these politicians seen the prices of goods in this country, who except a million air can afford to live a half way decent life in the Bahamas? I would bet that more than half the politicians out there have not been in a grocery store since before VAT! Someone even said it here a case of beer that is brewed right here is $53.00, that is madness!

**THEN STOP VOTING FNM AND PLP!! FNM WAS GOING TO BRING IN VAT ALSO = FACT. THEY ARE BOTH FCKING RETARDS AND SO ARE THEIR SUPPORTERS.** BTW prices haven't changed much, customs and theft always made prices high here. And Beer was always expensive, in a city of drunks they should lower tax on beer and raise tax on hard liquor but they are retarded, the FNM AND PLP. I'm guessing you actually live in the Bahamas and know our cost of living has been ridiculous for years now? This high price sht didn't just magically start with VAT. Check the out islands, they even more expensive.

FNM and PLP say they believe in Bahamians

* FOREIGN MANAGEMENT COMPANY FOR AIRPORT.
* FOREIGN MANAGEMENT COMPANY FOR BEC.
* FOREIGN MANAGEMENT COMPANY FOR THE DUMP.
* FOREIGN COMPANY FOR THE ROAD TRAFFIC COMPUTERS.
* FOREIGN COMPANY FOR THE CCTV.
* FOREIGN COMPANY FOR SOLAR POWER.
* FOREIGN COMPANIES FOR POLITICAL RALLIES (yes for real).

the list goes on.

Foreign companies are laughing all the way to the bank. They say the Bahamas is a country of IDIOTS that cant do anything themselves. Except ofcourse run around a field and clean hotel rooms.

A country of slaves??? Maybe its time to WAKE UP BAHAMAS.

**STOP VOTING FOR FNM AND PLP AS THEY THINK YOU ARE DUMB STUPID ANIMALS. THEY THINK YOU ARE NOT WORTH SHIT COMPARED TO A FOREIGNER. THEY THINK THIS COUNTRY IS FULL OF TOTAL IDIOTS WITHOUT ENOUGH BRAINS TO DO THE MOST BASIC THINGS. VOTE FOR ANYTHING BUT FNM AND PLP, JUST SAY NO TO FNM AND PLP, TELL FNM AND PLP ABOUT THEY STINK BACKSIDE. TELL THEM YOU HAD ENOUGH. SHOW THEM YOU HAD ENOUGH.**

The FNM and PLP couldn't run a lemonade stand let alone a country. They are so stupid they have to hire foreigners to tell them what to do. The FNM and PLP say fck you to ALL Bahamians. **Vote FNM and PLP if you are retarded.** Only a TOTAL retard would still vote FNM and PLP after the sht they been doing to this country and its people. And only a TOTAL retard would defend their sht - but watch some try, and to them I say fck off traitors and terrorists, tell your ma suck my azz.