You're absolutely right about how big money can affect the outcome of a trail and even an earlier lower court sentence in the case of murder. Case in point is the recent Order of the Court of Appeals that Donna Vaslyi have the benefit of another trial rather than serve the 30 year sentence that she initially received for being found guilty of the murder of her husband. Big wig QC lawyers (including probably one or two foreign ones) will of course be pleading her case in the second trial she has successfully been able to "buy" and the judge in the retrial will no doubt be overcome by inculcated deference to such senior high priced wise men of the law, almost guaranteeing Donna Vasyli will eventually get the full acquittal she is willing and apparently able to "buy". Sadly, the blind fold was removed from the eyes of the Lady of Justice a long time ago in our country, leaving only the financially less well-off to suffer injustice within our criminal justice system.

Repost: Most people fail to understand that paying health insurance for one's healthcare is just legalized gambling where:

- The insured is the gambler;
- The element of chance (the cards dealt or dice rolled) is the probability of the gambler remaining healthy;
- The casino is the insurer;
- The casino or house rules are the insurance policy;
- The bet or wager made by the insured is the insurance premium paid to the insurer;
- The gaming board or commission providing minimal regulatory oversight is the Insurance Commissioner at the Registrar of Insurance Companies;
- The betting odds are set to favour the insurer by the insured's actuary who determines the likely outcome of the bet based on the element of chance within the entire risk pool of gamblers (insured individuals).

Why should the doors of the health insurance casino only be open to those of us who can afford to place high cost bets (pay astronomical premiums)? Why should everyone else be denied affordable quality healthcare when they need it? Why should insurers have the privilege of only insuring wealthier people who can afford to gamble in their casinos while the government is made to foot the healthcare bill for everyone else? Why should private hospitals exist for only those who can afford to gamble while the government has to fund the costs of public hospitals and public health clinics for everyone else?

Bottomline: Access to affordable quality healthcare should not be reserved for the wealthier among us, with everyone else left to depend on the government (taxpayers) for their healthcare needs. The unnecessary costly intermediary casinos (the private health insurers) serve no purpose other than take away resources that would otherwise be available to all under a single payer universal healthcare system. No civilized society should permit any kind of profit motivated gambling (by private healthcare insurers) on the healthcare needs of its members. Access to quality healthcare when needed should be regarded as a fundamental right and entitlement for each and every member of a civilized society and we must recognize this within our own society notwithstanding that the profit motivated private health insurers would have us believe that their existence is vital to our country's healthcare needs. Tha'st just self serving baloney on their part!

The existing NHI Act should be repealed in its entirety and the new Minnis-led government should move posthaste towards putting in place a single payer universal healthcare system with incentive programs that reward individuals for their own personal effort in maintaining good health.

*Repost:* Most people fail to understand that paying health insurance for one's healthcare is just legalized gambling where:

The insured is the gambler;
The element of chance (the cards dealt or dice rolled) is the probability of the gambler remaining healthy;
The casino is the insurer;
The casino or house rules are the insurance policy;
The bet or wager made by the insured is the insurance premium paid to the insurer;
The gaming board or commission providing minimal regulatory oversight is the Insurance Commissioner at the Registrar of Insurance Companies;
The betting odds are set to favour the insurer by the insured's actuary who determines the likely outcome of the bet based on the element of chance within the entire risk pool of
gamblers (insured individuals).

Why should the doors of the health insurance casino only be open to those of us who can afford to place high cost bets (pay astronomical premiums)? Why should everyone else be denied affordable quality healthcare when they need it? Why should insurers have the privilege of only insuring wealthier people who can afford to gamble in their casinos while the government is made to foot the healthcare bill for everyone else? Why should private hospitals exist for only those who can afford to gamble while the government has to fund the costs of public hospitals and public health clinics for everyone else?

Bottomline: Access to affordable quality healthcare should **not** be reserved for the wealthier among us, with everyone else left to depend on the government (taxpayers) for their healthcare needs. The unnecessary costly intermediary casinos (the private health insurers) serve no purpose other than take away resources that would otherwise be available to all under a single payer universal healthcare system. No civilized society should permit any kind of profit motivated gambling (by private healthcare insurers) on the healthcare needs of its members. Access to quality healthcare when needed should be regarded as a fundamental right and entitlement for each and every member of a civilized society and we must recognize this within our own society notwithstanding that the profit motivated private health insurers would have us believe that their existence is vital to our country's healthcare needs. Tha'st just self serving baloney on their part!

The existing NHI Act should be repealed in its entirety and the new Minnis-led government should move posthaste towards putting in place a single payer universal healthcare system with incentive programs that reward individuals for their own personal effort in maintaining good health.

Precisely put!

Now, now TalRussell....simmer down and be nice to @Banker.

Most people fail to understand that paying health insurance for one's healthcare is just legalized gambling where:

- The insured is the gambler;
- The element of chance (the cards dealt or dice rolled) is the probability of the gambler
remaining healthy;
- The casino is the insurer;
- The casino or house rules are the insurance policy;
- The bet or wager made by the insured is the insurance premium paid to the insurer;
- The gaming board or commission providing minimal regulatory oversight is the Insurance
Commissioner at the Registrar of Insurance Companies;
- The betting odds are set to favour the insurer by the insured's actuary who determines the
likely outcome of the bet based on the element of chance within the entire pool of
gamblers (insured individuals).

Why should the doors of the health insurance casino only be open to those of us who can afford to place high cost bets (pay astronomical premiums)? Why should everyone else be denied affordable quality healthcare when they need it? Why should insurers have the privilege of only insuring wealthier people who can afford to gamble in their casinos while the government (taxpayers) are made to foot the bill for everyone else? Why should private hospitals exist for only those who can afford to gamble while the government (taxpayers) have to fund the costs of public hospitals/clinics for everyone else?

Bottomline: Access to affordable quality healthcare should not be reserved for the wealthier among us, with everyone else left to depend on the government (taxpayers) for their healthcare needs. The unnecessary costly intermediary casinos (the private health insurers) serve no purpose other than take away resources that would be available to all under a single payer universal healthcare system. No civilized society should permit any kind of profit motivated gambling by private healthcare insurers on the healthcare needs of any of its members. Access to quality healthcare when needed is a fundamental right and entitlement in any civilized society and we must recognize this within our own society notwithstanding that the greedy private health insurers would have us believe that their existence is vital to our country's healthcare needs. That just self serving baloney on their part!

Davis does not seem to understand that threatening someone and then in the next breath saying no threat has been made or was intended does not in anyway take away or nullify the fact that the threat was made in the first place. Just who does Davis think he is telling Minnis (our PM) that he should not be so inclined to get ready to lie in his own grave??!!!! Minnis should table the letter he received from Davis at the next sitting of the House of Assembly so that the Speaker of the House can also take appropriate action.

Believe it or not, U.S. policy makers actually hold the view that It's not in the national security interest of the U.S. to have any thriving developed nation on its door step. This is why U.S. policy makers went absolutely ballistic when Obama started to ease sanctions against Cuba......sanctions which Trump has since re-instated for the most part.

Vernice Walkine is the real problem at NAD!

Insolvent is right! Whatever comfort letters/guarantees that the known corrupt Christie-led government of the day may have signed in an effort to keep BoB's doors open for business should never have been relied on by the Bank Supervision Department of The Central Bank (headed by the Governor Wendy Craigg and now John Rolle), the external auditors (initially Deloitte and later e&y), bisx (Keith Davis) and others. By the second year of the last Christie-led government there was considerable information in the public domain about the pervasive corrupt activities involving an alarming number of cabinet ministers who had abused their public office and the public trust through acts of malfeasance or nonfeasance. By that time it was also well known that our country was teetering on the verge of being unable to meet its foreign currency obligations to foreign creditors, including the so called 'international lending agencies' controlled by the U.S. and OECD interests, with failed statehood now squarely staring at us....it's only a matter of time! Any lawyer worth his or her oats should be able to make this winning case against many of those named above!