Comments on: Minister Updates On National Health Plan

By: Chris from medicalaidsite.co.za

Chris from medicalaidsite.co.za — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 07:29:27 +0000

The National Health Plan will certainly give more people access to health coverage. But just like Obama’s Affordable Care Act, it will most likely increase taxes on everyone. Hopefully, it will work for Bermuda and reduce the country’s healthcare costs in the long run.

By: navin johnson

navin johnson — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:43:15 +0000

we have socialism here…..other countries have higher income taxes but examine ours…15% wage tax….hospital levy…duty of 25% on most everything..social insurance…Government in Bermuda tacks duty on everything which gets passed back to us….Employers pay much of the tax here and people still cannot makes ends meet with food and utilities among the highest in the world….if you have income tax you do away with all of the duty and surcharges right?

By: Babydoll

Babydoll — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:12:12 +0000

I believe that Mr.Desilva maybe looking at the way the health care system works in Canada, and I think that this maybe the way to go in the future. Yes the taxes are higher but everyone would be covered under this type of plan. It works off your disposalable income, you are taxed health tax on the amount of money you spend. the less you spend the less you pay, the more you spend the more you pay, but everyone gets equal health care. If everyone looks at Canada and sees how the country is doing I think it just may work in BDA. No one goes to jail in Canada for debt caused by fundamental health care.

By: Little Sound

Little Sound — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:51:24 +0000

The beginning of the end of Bermuda. Income tax will create an icredible sucking sound as all the sensible people leave with their money. All part of Dr. B’s plan so that he can come back & plunder a poor Island populated by an ignorant resentful population

By: fred

fred — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:06:37 +0000

If we strive to be like the rest of the world, then we will be… destitute like other major countries. Our government is very liberal, because that’s what buys votes. When you promise to hand out something for free (which it’s NOT) then people flock to you and vote in your favor because they are looking to gain something for themselves. The problem with this is that the government must keep supplying the handouts to keep their positions in the next elections and secondly but more important is that once these frankenstein policies are in place they never go away and draw down the entire country until its demise. If you don’t believe it then check out Greece. Our government believes they can continue to hand out to everyone, but liberalism eventually fails. With increased social programs comes higher taxes and eventually lower employment. As time passes more citizens have less because of high taxation to support government mandated social services. In the end societies fail when more citizens realize they can claim from these social programs than those that work to fund them.

America – high taxes ~ 38% of wages, plus local, state, city taxes adds up to ~48% of your income. Average working citizens are working two or three part time McJobs to make ends meet, but he social services are heavily overburdended. Social security is on the verge of collapse, and so on and so on.

Europe – similar economic problems, high taxes ~60% of wages, failed economic system.

Do you really want socialism here in Bermuda?

By: Goose

Goose — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:58:46 +0000

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Son-of-the-soil.pdf

It’s buried in the public domain.

By: Argosy

Argosy — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:43:31 +0000

When you get close to a rubbish dump, you start to smell the garbage!

BTW….whatever happened to that “son of the soil” document??

The Privy Council (at our expense) ruled that it should be released to the public….

The Auditor General was incarerated over it…..

Where is it buried??

By: Blankman

Blankman — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:21:06 +0000

You’ve nailed that one.

By: Vulpes

Vulpes — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 07:34:57 +0000

This is a Government that is not only devoid of ideas and in their place has chosen to campaign with cliches that are completely unaffordable and unrealistic unless they are looking to drive all business away; no, this is something far, far worse – a Government that is not rotten to the core but from the core. Yes, that is you Minister we are talking about.

By: 16s32e

16s32e — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 02:44:18 +0000

I see if minister Desilva had his way he would raise everything 500% along with the junk food that gets sold here on the island. Minister please rethink your comments before you and your team SINK this island deep than we are. I know you live in a bubble unlike the average Bermudian that is feeling the pinch in this economic climate. So pop your bubble take off your rose colored glasses and take a real look at your National Health Plan because in a few years you will be paying into it and looking for coverage from it and there will be nothing there and the only person you can blame is yourself .

By: Reality Check

Reality Check — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 01:52:33 +0000

Please, please assure me, and much more importantly our International Business partners, that our Government is NOT going to introduce “proportional payments” for health care. That is INCOME TAX plain and simple, and we will then be subject to the law of unintended consequences. It’s really simple to follow the consequences. INCOME TAX IN – INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS OUT. Is this what the Minister means by not changing everything?

By: Bermudian

Bermudian — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:34:49 +0000

He needs to stick to construction and leave politics alone.

By: pepper

pepper — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 23:11:02 +0000

The health minister knows his days are numbered….and Paula Cox also knows her reign is going to be over very soon..time for a change…

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:05:44 +0000

I can smell the Cedar now.

By: Chardonnay

Chardonnay — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:51:43 +0000

hmm…when the Minister says he is NOT doing something (quote “we are NOT changing everything”) it’s time to start worrying. He wants proportional payment, a.k.a. income tax, to pay for his Plan – and that’s not all. Better read his National Health Plan and all the fine print before believing him and all the pre-election spin.

By: alicia

alicia — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:03:32 +0000

Perhaps I’ve gone deaf… but I can’t hear him…