john, stop watching "The Matrix" reruns.
Game of thrones has more sex and more blood.

50% of the population , give or take, IS NOT covered by insurance.

in the projections, 48% would be contributors and the 52% non-contributors.

there were recent newspaper articles were the it was stated that 30% of the workforce is covered by health insurance. that is way less than half of the population. and most paid for health insurance because their employer made it mandatory.

at my workplace, those who retire may continue their coverage, but , for those 60 and over the premium is over $600 per month so they drop coverage all together. Some of those people never claimed.

also thorugh my group insurance, they do not accept employees who are diabetic ( a fair number in the bahamian population) or have history of cancer and other things.

you have to wait until the boss comes back from disneyworld

I hope he will not retract his statement this time.

So, you think insurers really care about you? No, in the US under Obama care and after accepting people with no pre-existing conditions, they want a 30% rise in medical premiums. Subsidies have not stopped them one bit from raising premiums.

Insurance is the second oldest profession.

However, i also shake my head when people say that Bahamians spend 900 million dollars in health care abroad and that could fund NHI.

the point is, suppose you need $20,000 for an operation and you find it through friends, family and cookouts. You will be operated on by a top experience surgeon away.

Now suppose these same people gather the 20,000 and, rather than put it on a cookout, pay into NHI through taxes. This will happen:
this money will fund health care for prisoners, civil servants and illegal immigrants.
by the time you reach the hospital, ain't none left for you and there is no specialist who can do the operation and, on top of that , they lose the appointment page because they still write down in books instead of using a computer, in place of your appointment, they will then schedule the surgery of some politician's cousin.

he may have been hired to declare that so another postponement will happen.

think about it:

-- rubis brouhah
--release the draft bill which 'could not be fixed till next year' to distract the people
--urban renewal brouhaha
-- launch the pr website [run by canadians] to distract the people
--while the people are distracted by the website and the crnival artits that did not get paid, let's find fault with the foia.

from wikipedia:
> The Reich Ministry of Public
> Enlightenment and Propaganda (German:
> Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung
> und Propaganda, RMVP or
> Propagandaministerium) was a Nazi
> government agency to enforce Nazism
> ideology.[1]
>
> Founded on 14 March 1933, a few months
> after the Machtergreifung by Adolf
> Hitler's government, it was headed by
> Reich Minister Joseph Goebbels.[1] It
> was responsible for controlling the
> German news media, literature, visual
> arts, filmmaking, theatre, music, and
> broadcasting. As the central office of
> Nazi propaganda, it comprehensively
> supervised and regulated the culture
> and mass media of Nazi Germany

They wish... lol

take a look at the photo of the letter sent to summon the exorcists, in the link below.
The English language errors are horrendous.

http://bahamasuncensored.com/the-devil-…

I can vouch that these demons, in the form for spectrum, attend political rallies and the carnival.

that is how 21,000 tickets were sold but 90,000 were in attendance.

Natinal health insurance is not cheap. Look what i found on wikipedia, using the example of one country you cite:

> Brazil In Brazil employers are
> required to withhold 11% of the
> employee's wages for Social Security
> and a certain percentage as Income
> Tax. The employer is required to
> contribute an additional 20% of the
> total payroll value to the Social
> Security system. Depending on the
> company's main activity, the employer
> must also contribute to federally
> funded insurance and educational
> programs.
>
> Vat in Brazil 12%+5%+25%=42%

Perhaps the greedy "detractors" are doing us a favor because, how many of us would like to pay a high percentage of our income to a health system which suffers widespread waste and unaudited results. It would be more money to be wasted.

Yes, your family sacrificed and save the moeny, but you reaped the benefit of that.

If i sacrifice, the beneficiaries will be those who never contributed and i, who get sick too sometimes, might die. That is the problem.

make it a province of venezuela.

free oil and price control, now we're talking.