‘It’s been a month & nothing from Premier’ – Doug Wheatley
The NHI Concerned Citizens and Residents Group, which had on October 13, 2015 submitted its petition against the National Health Insurance (NHI), along with a detailed letter, has proposed a number of alternatives which it would like to see Government consider instead of the scheme in the current format.
The letter was signed by the chief actor behind the petition Natalio D. Wheatley aka Sowande Uhuru. The petition eventually garnered more than 700 signatures.
Among the issues considered glaring by the Group are that the system as being implemented is mandatory, that the statistical underpinnings upon which the main study was conducted was flawed and gave incorrect figures for the percentages of insured and uninsured persons in the territory, that individuals and families will be affected, that there is a persistent culture of secrecy, and that the economic viability of the system is in question.
The Group is proposing that everyone could be registered under a private coinsurance pool, that the uninsured should be registered and individuals with insurance that is equivalent or superior to the NHI should be exempted. They also propose that insured persons can be taxed one to two percent of their salary to pay for the uninsured. They also suggested the expansion of the remit of Social Security.
Worrying silence
However, there has not been a word from the Premier in a month almost since the meeting and this is beginning to worry Wheatley who was part of that delegation.
“It has been a month since we held that meeting with the Premier and delivered the petition and the covering letter explaining our reasons for our actions. We thought that we would give the Premier adequate time in order to consult given that he would need a lot of consultation,” Wheatley said.
“But it is now over four weeks and we’re getting the feeling that by this time the Premier should have has all his ducks lined up and would be in a position to meet with us or give us a letter stating exactly where he and his government stand on the matters that we raised with them.”
Wheatley said people continue to meet him in the street and express their concerns about the NHI and how it will affect them if the changes sought are not made.
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So the BVI Financial Services is under threat, we have work in Tourism and so many issues and our Premier supposed to be studying Doug wid his £$%^?