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NHI smacks of greed! – Winston E. Nibbs
He was speaking as a guest, along with Natalio D. Wheatley aka Sowande Uhuru, on the Speak Out BVI radio talk show aired on ZBVI 780 AM on Tuesday September 15, 2015.
“We are too intelligent to just throw a thing on the table and say let’s go with it,” Mr Nibbs said.
“Let’s not forget we have a section of our government system called Welfare. We were intelligent [enough] to put these things in place and we have found good favour in it. So let’s not make it look tonight like [myself] and Sowande trying to suggest anything other than our wellbeing.
“Those of us who either by choice or by privilege who do not necessarily need to suck off of the public nipple…we do not want it to become a dry well. We need to be more intelligent in our approach,” he added.
According to Nibbs, he has a problem with the fact that the scheme is being touted as mandatory for all persons who will be caught in its net. “I don’t want it to be mandatory as it is right now. I don’t want to see it or hear about it. But maybe it should be mandatory that when you go to the hospital they cannot deny you assistance,” he said. “I think that is where we need to shift the mandatory [concept],” he argued.
Nibbs said Government is claiming that the hospital has to be paid for hence the need for NHI. He is of the view that the money from NHI will go towards paying the doctors and nurses and dispensary staff when people turn up there to access health care.
“The professionals are the ones who are going to get paid. And that is what the reason is for ‘taxing us’. Don’t lose your sight people…because this tax does not seem to have anything to do with our infrastructure at the Peebles Hospital. It has to do with some serious level of greed,” Mr Nibbs said.
Efforts to get a response from Chairman of the BVI Health Services Authority (BVIHSA) Bishop John I. Cline proved futile.
Registration for the controversial NHI began on September 1, 2015. However, the scheme comes on stream from January 1, 2016.
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18 Responses to “NHI smacks of greed! – Winston E. Nibbs”
The best way forward is to focus on providing insurance for the 38 % of the population without insurance. Let those with private insurance equivalent or better han that provided by NHI be exempt from all participation from NHI but to be exempt be assessed a 1% or 2% monthly penalty to assist in funding those without insurance. The contributions should not exceed this amount as mos of the uninsured will be minimum wae earners.
It is good to help those who really need it, because everyone on the face of the earth is not so fortunate after all.
I will agree that the rates are high. I don`t understand the reason for the cap, I don`t like it. NHI can be very good, once they look at the cap and the fees again. These Wicked and bias and spiteful private insurance companies. Who`s more greedy than them? God don`t sleep. NHI is a blessing for us.
So let me get this straight. We should just build a big cistern by the Hospital and drop the NHI moneys in it? That will make him happy? The Hospital is not getting the money but rather the professionals? WTF??????? Part of the Hospital's expenses are human resources. Without doctors, nurses, orderlies, administrative staff, EMTs, technical persons etc. How the F will the hospital function without these professionals? Should they work for free? I think some people will do anything just to get on a mic on live radio or to get on TV. This makes absolutely no sense and just gave me a headache thinking about it. So Ronnie, get Jamesy and them boys to build a holding tank for NHI funds let's drop it in there and make this chap happy. You really can't make this sh*t up. SMH.