http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/bermuda-healthcare-advocacy-group-commission-of-inquir.html

BHAG

How’s that Public-Private Partnership coming along… any numbers on that?

I think the BHB are doing a great job improving services and the physical plant generally but when you read comments like the above one can only scratch your head and ask ‘where’?

Year on year every single salaries & benefits expense line increased and in total by more than $18 million. Consulting fees more or less stayed the same at $8m and what does the $3.7m bad debt expense in 2010 relate to?

Where is the $4m in savings? Has the Minister actually read through or understood these financials or does he just read what he’s told to/written in front of him?

Interesting to see the Minister trying to to take credit for saving $13m off the very preliminary Johns Hopkins’ estimate which was presumably formulated before the RFPs were returned. That’s like taking credit for shaving $50m off the budget by agreeing not spend it in the first place. Sound familiar?

Surprised the Minister didn’t highlight in his remarks that taxpayers will be paying more than $800 million over 30 years (before any adjustments for inflation so the number will likely be closer to $1 billion) to utilise a facility that will end up costing $247 million to build.

How much of the difference goes towards annual running costs, depreciation, plant & equipment, IT, etc.? Show taxpayers the numbers please.