Just another exercise in distracting the gullible PLP masses from the real issues facing the country. Let's all have a big costly party to celebrate how our great little country is moving firward. No different from those costly high school graduation parties celebrating a D average.

"PLP Chairman Bradley Roberts yesterday stressed that the Bahamas has come a long way during the past three years under the leadership of the Progressive Liberal Party."

Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,...wait.......ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,....OMG.......ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha.

Come May 2017 the Bahamian people will have the opportunity to remove these Jackasses from government and save our country. In any first world country, people as academically and ethically challenged as Shane Gibson wouldn't get past first base. That applies to many others in the current cabinet.

Christie, give it a rest! We are tired of your failed promises. Always tomorrow but tomorrow never comes.

Thanks for the informative article Adrian.

My wish for 2016 is that the doctors refuse to sign up en masse for NHI in its current form. Let them use their leverage to stop this runaway train dead in its tracks. It may take a new administration to achieve this but the country needs to take a serious and considered look at the whole issue of healthcare in the Bahamas. No-one wants to see people having to finance critical care through steak outs and charity. The country has to do better but let's do it in a way that improves the level of care for those who currently have no access to private health insurance. What we don't need is the complete eradication of the Private Health Sector and the economy forced into even deeper recession all in a desperate attempt to create a Christie "legacy". Let's be honest folks, you get nuttin for nuttin! The PLP is trying to delude the gullible that the country can afford a comprehensive NHI scheme at this vulnerable time in our economic development. Get real! Major first world countries cannot make it work but Christie et al have the arrogance to think that they can figure it out using back of the envelope calculations and a discredited firm of foreign consultants!!!
So, it's over to you Doctors - please do what is right for your patients and for the country and do not placate these charlatans disguising themselves as leaders.

Tal - you don't know and no-one knows whether government is talking patients or visits because nothing has been agreed. This is the crux of the matter. Government is playing with people's live using back of an envelope calculations encouraged by a completely discredited consultant.

Amen, Islandgirl.

"Meanwhile, the MAB remains concerned that the Government has “condensed” what is supposed to be a one-two year NHI implementation timetable into just one month."

Just how desperate must this government be?

There are plenty more deserving of flogging!