Letters to The Editor
Rick Lowe: Stop playing politics with people's health
By Rick Lowe
Nov 9, 2015 - 9:31:12 AM

Like Jamaica, “Free health is perhaps the biggest unfulfilled campaign promise of the last decade. It's clear that no one did the numbers to see what it would really cost the country to provide quality health care on a sustained basis.” (http://bit.ly/1iLvFCr)

There is a dangerous trend that Government can fulfil all our wishes by starting another bureaucracy because they “care about us”.

I suggest we look at the track record.

In 2009 I counted some 179 government offices, incorporating ministries, departments, agencies etc in the "blue pages" of the phone book.

Conducting the same exercise in 2014, I counted some 237.

I am yet to see Cabinet Minister stand in Parliament and say the job a certain agency, department or even a Ministry has been fulfilled and is no longer required.

We have only seen increased budgets (costs) and expansion of government and the problems that were to be “fixed” by successive government’s seem to have worsened.

Will the “fix” government applies to health care make any difference in the long run?

Sincerely,
Rick Lowe
www.weblogbahamas.com


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