PLP FutureCare a 'disaster':Bermuda seniors left out in the cold

by Sal | November 22, 2009 at 01:24 am

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Government backbencher Terry Lister said private health insurers were to blame, for pulling their affordable plans for seniors after FutureCare was launched.

"The insurers need to take their share of this risk, their share of this responsibility," he said. "The whole conversation today is that we have come back here to fix something that came about because of the action of the insurers."

He said Government "never intended and we never planned to leave anybody out" of FutureCare but that a phased approach was the only way to implement the scheme.

Mr. Lister said the Premier's promise of guaranteed health care for seniors was made from his heart. "That's how the PLP does things," he said.

More self serving rubbish from this plp tribe of incompetent liars and thieves,the only thing Ewart Brown feels from his heart as Lister said, is hatred for whites and greed as he rapes and pillages Taxpayers and burdens unborn generations with billions in debt from his friends & family looting Bda. Inc.

Lister whines "private health insurers were to blame"...Its always someone else's fault. Been someone else's fault since the plp instigated strikes, murders,riots and burned Bermuda to it's knees in the 60's and 70's.

Another Ewart Brown failed election promise!

"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." - Margaret Thatcher

Shadow Health Minister Louise Jackson,

told the House of Assembly yesterday that the health insurance scheme was a "total, total disaster for all" and was not properly thought through before it was launched at the start of this year.Another of the PLP's 2007 failed election promises, with Premier Ewart Brown pledging that it would "make the dreaded prospect of health care insecurity a thing of the past for our senior citizens".

HIP premiums had already gone up from $108 a month in 2003 to $208 in 2009 an increase of more than 15 percent each year.

"With full enrolment, we could be facing a bill of just short of $1 billion in 20 years.

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