Persons have no confidence in local doctors – Radio talk show caller
The team was also told that persons felt NHI was been forced down their throats and that the public is still craving certain important information about the scheme.
This came to the fore once again last night, August 20, 2015 on the radio talk Umoja on ZBVI 780AM with host Cromwell Smith aka Edju En Ka. The featured guests were Deputy Director of Social Security Mr Roy E. Barry, Manager of Beneficiary and Advisory Services of NHI Division, Ms Kishma A. Baronville and Manager of Health Benefits and Referrals of NHI, Ms Norma Benjamin.
“We are in a small community and things that should be confidential are often not confidential,” said a female caller to the programme.
She further expressed the view that NHI needs to bear in mind that there are many persons living and working in the territory who already have established comfortable relationships with doctors overseas who know and have a history with them as patients.
“You are now forcing them to go and have relationship with somebody else. The reason why they went away (is) because they don’t feel comfortable and if it is that they [NHI] don’t want to pay the full price then they need to consider and at least pay a percentage of what persons have to pay to the doctors overseas and not to tell them they have to take the services here,” added the caller.
She questioned the ability of the current team of doctors to absorb the health care needs of the people of the VI. “I mean seriously, did they consider all of these factors before telling people what it is that they are going to do?”
Responding to the caller’s expressed concerns, Mr Barry said some of the things that can be done is that individuals can submit a claim once they have returned to the territory and NHI will refund according to its customary rate.
The caller expressed that there are some things that are not being explained properly to the targeted NHI contributors as she said, “Well I think you need to explain…. Because like her (a previous caller) and myself I don’t feel comfortable with the doctors here and now being forced into a situation where I have to go to the doctors here.”
She also said she thinks it’s a very unfortunate situation that persons are now being forced to pay for something that they are not comfortable with.
“I think that it is a very unfortunate event because we are now being forced to pay for something that you really don’t feel comfortable with and we don’t have the information to make informed decisions because you are not giving information out to the public.”
The team said it is continuing diligently with efforts to have all the information necessary out to the public in a timely manner, considering all the improvements being made.
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50 Responses to “Persons have no confidence in local doctors – Radio talk show caller”
It is difficult enough to take commentaries seriously because they are usually such nonsense, and the made by silly name is just the icing on the cake. How many votes did Natalio get in the election? Less than the number of commentaries he issues each year!
The introduction of NHI will make no difference to your preferred health care arrangements. You will still have the choice of going off island,albeit that you dont yet know whether the government will contribute towards the cost. In the UK you have to pay into the National Health Service and you get free treatment. You can also choose to pay for private, faster, treatment. I am sure than when it was introduced in the 1940s people had the same concerns.
Of more concern are the as yet unannounced details. If contributions are 3.75% of salary, how on earth came a contributo pay their unemployed spouses contributio? What is 3.75% of ZERO? How do people of pensionable age get treatment, especially if they have no pension? Are people on pensions expected to pay? If so, how and who will collect and pay it?
So many unanswered questions, and it is nearly, allegedly, upon us.
I disagree....Dr. Yee-Sing and the other Jamaican lady that works in Eureka/Medicure....I can't say the same for the other doctors in the aforementioned medical organisation who I felt were not there to treat me so much as milk the insurance money = D in**** man upstairs in particular!
I am not against NHI, but I am against the way it is being implemented. If this Government, truly cared about all person being insured and not putting another financial burden on persons, They would have made it mandatory to have insurance, but not mandatory for it to be NHI. Persons would be able to keep what insurance they have or choose NHI.
Yes, I know we can have a second insurance, but at what cost; some persons cannot afford to pay for an additional insurance.
The NHI people have not indicated who the overseas providers are, what agreement for an air ambulance is in place. These are very important factors in having an insurance an a major component between Life and death. I can foresee a lot of lawsuits in the future because of the NHI being mandatory and not being able to access proper health care.
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Finish buying my meds not much is left. Do I have to pay h
NHI on that?