Calling Gov’t an ‘ass’ will be disrespecting grandfather’s donkey- E. G. Maduro
Government plans to have the scheme up and running by January 2016.
Mr Maduro said that for him, while the National Health insurance is an excellent idea, he is of the view it’s not being properly managed. “Because under the Constitution and International Human Rights, everybody first thing has the right to life, you cannot tell a person what doctor to choose, what hospital to choose when it comes to life.”
He said he finds it very inhumane to be forcing an insurance on a person who already has an existing medical insurance especially when they can go any part of the world and seek medical care while the Government’s is limited to where one can get care with NHI.
“What they doing there choosing hospital for you and telling you if you have a private insurance where you can use any part of the world you got to have theirs as well or give yours up just to have theirs is unlawful and we are going to fight that too tooth and nail,” said Mr Maduro.
In full support of NHI Petition
Lecturer at the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College and a regular guest on talk shows, Natalio D. Wheatley aka Sowande Uhuru is one of the persons behind a petition agitating for Government to take the NHI back to the drawing board and address some of the burning issues of concern to residents and members of the insurance industry, which will be forced to deplete staff as a result of the scheme which fully comes into operation on January 1, 2016.
Mr Maduro said he is in full support of the NHI petition and has his name on the top of the list signed as he said that it’s going to be the focus of his talk show tonight, fully supporting Mr Alred C. Frett’s position on NHI and strengthening on Mr Wheatley’s position.
Mr Frett has expressed his disagreement with NHI in no uncertain terms.
“I am very strongly in favour of what Mr Wheatley is saying. We need to go back to the drawing board, come back to the people so we can get a proper, better foundation to work on,” he said.
“With your private insurance if you in Australia you can get help with their insurance, sometime you right here in Tortola you are not sure you can get help. By the time they figure out if to send you to George or to Norman you dead,” alleged Mr Maduro.
“For a matter I have his petition out, I have gotten a couple of signatures so far, of course I have signed, I am the first one on top of the page. I am not trying to bring down anybody, I am dealing with people’s rights, I am dealing with law. A right to life is a right government can’t take it away from anybody and the person who owns it can’t give it away.”
In relating to the government’s insistence thus far to go ahead with NHI, Mr Maduro said, “A friend of mine told me not to call them an ass (government) because if I call them ass I’ll be embarrassing my great grandfather donkey. He used to put food on the donkey and it used to take it to every person and bring back the money.”
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