QEH Head Suggests “Rationing” to Save Cost
Submitted by Anthony Davis
Life Support
The chief administrator at Barbados’ lone public hospital is suggesting that authorities may have to consider discontinuing treatment for some terminally ill patients… the question I want to ask . . . ‘is Barbados ready for a conversation and a debate around futility of care versus rationing? – Barbados Today
Well, well, well. What next? The answer is a resounding NO, Dr. James!
How much is a life worth, doctor? What you should do is drum it into Chris Sinckler’s head that the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) needs the funds which he recklessly cut. The QEH was functioning very well until he came along and cut the funds to that institution along with the funds to the UWI and welfare. These are all things that are hurting the poor, the needy and the vulnerable in our society.
Please note that he released the money for the bursaries after the most of the students who needed them most had already dropped out for lack of the money with which to register. This all from a “people-centred Government”. Methinks that the only people that they are centred around are themselves and their friends. Not one other Government which was in dire straits chose to cut spending to such institutions.
They don’t have money for these institutions, but they have money to pump into a Bridgetown Marina so that the rich, the famous and the bigoted can push us off another plot of land – along with part of Browne’s Beach where they plan on building a luxury hotel for the abovementioned. They cannot pay people the measly $650, but they have money for these projects. They don’t have money to pay those who have to rely on welfare – that has also been cut – but they have money to pump into Trinidad oil wells instead of our own. Once again one of our beaches will be taken away so that the playboys come with their sleek, shiny yachts can spend time there unmolested.
The first thing that comes to the Prime Minister’s mind to be done as soon as things start looking up would be to give more money to the Constituency Councils because they needed it. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) lacks funding and that is all he can think about – putting the taxpayers’ money into his friend’s pockets. And the list goes on.
I reiterate, Dr. James.
My answer is a resounding NO!
The lives of our people cannot be bartered with like those of some animal at an auction house!
One of the Indian Chiefs said: “They made us many promises, but they only kept one. They promised to steal our land and they stole it.”
The same thing is happening in our country, and Barbadians had better wake up and see what is going on.
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what a silly article, one that only a two tear old could write, attacking projects in the pipeline necessary to bring forex to the island is childish and shows that the writer is far removed from the economic realities that drives the economy.
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@ac March 2, 2015 at 6:51 AM #
Why is the article silly?
Are any of the Statements untrue?
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Anthony, there is no argument with you that the Dr. Kervokian theme espoused by the head of the QEH is deeply troubling but a learned economic voice here, Walter, made the remark that “we need to generate jobs and create higher tax revenues.”
He is correct of course and the ‘playground for the rich’ projects you refer looks to do just that.
We can have a robust argument whether those particular projects will do the trick considering similar projects the length and breadth of the region: in the Bahamas, special one for cruise ships off Haiti on one of their undeveloped islands etc.
But it’ difficult to compare revenue generating opportunities to expense generating projects.
And, although its not a popular thing this matter of completely free UE education is a debate we need to have.
Mr. Barrow did what was needed when he rolled out free education. The nation is well beyond what it was then.
I expect that Erroll Barrow would be a dynamo as then if he was a young politician today but being that shrewd man with that bright mirror can we honestly project that he would be touting free tertiary education now when we seem to have a surfeit of lawyers, social scientist and the like,
When our housing stock has gone from the aspiration to move from a shed-roof and out house to a nice bungalow, to how many floors the town and county dept will approve and how many ensuite toilets we want, we can be assured that the country has MOVED on.
Someone suggested that certain disciplines at UE be less free than others. So give students in the hard sciences a freeness or more of it than those in other areas like law, for ex.
A discussion is needed.
When you have a proliferation of lawyers to the extent that some are demanding these ridiculous fees it suggests that we have now adequately covered some disciplines well enough to start asking new entrants to pay an adequate toll.
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AC:
How can you dismiss the article as silly. The author may not know the difference between things done at the national level that would bring the revenue to fund the things he has an interest in like: constituency councils and the QEH. However, as a taxpayer like all of us he has a right to indicate clearly where the thinks taxpayers money should be spent. Tax payers monies do not become an automatic right for political parties in power to fly first class and finance stupid trips the USA and Europe to talk a whole lot of foolishness. Like him I am concerned that the DLP the party of the poor has been the best instrument in destroying the gains the poor have made in this country – uwi, education, elections without the buying of votes, social order etc….
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Incidentally, a friend of mine from Jamaica relayed a story to me re medical care there which I found deeply troubling.
He advised that a patient with severe issues who required crucial medical care had to PAY for the services prior to attending the hospital.
The only reason that the patient is alive today is due to the fact that his relative had the discretionary income to send to Jamaica to assist with his care.
So it seems that the good Dr. here is simply importing the practices of our big brother further north.
If you are poor stand back and die peacefully at home…those who can pay will live to fight another day.
Sounds very American too doesn’t it.
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DeeWord:
You sounding more and more like a spin doctor who is regurgitating talking points from a prepared text. You just posted a whole set of dribble about Errol Barrow. He was a man for his time; he is no more. Maybe you need to see John in the Pine and see if he read up Barrow to “guide” you in you silly journey of spewing nonsense on this blog. To believe I spent yesterday and Saturday reading your so called “advice” to Danny Gill.
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How do we know whether these projects are good for the country or not? We don’t know what they are going to cost, how much revenue they are predicted to bring in…….in fact we don’t know much about them at all.
How can we make an informed decision when there is no information or transparency?
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Of course it’s obvious what you do with the terminally ill….you put them on the east coast beach and let the tide wash them away….with the mentally ill, the inmates, vagrants, the physically challenged, teenage pregnant girls, gays……….in fact anyone who doesn’t ‘fit’. I guess that includes me.
Anthony Davies….don’t work the poor against the rich, or black against white……..or you show yourself to be poor.
They’re all welcome at the Anglican Diocesan Service…Eh? You what? Well maybe not gays, or beggars, or inmates. As for the well-to-do? OK give them an honorary Doctorate.
Who will lobby with me to get Trevor the Beggar an honorary Degree? Who is the most profound icon to Christian belief in this ‘Christian country’…the Bishop of Barbados, the Most Rev and Hon Dr…(gawd), or Trevor, or Charlie on Ward 111 dying of cancer?
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Making government hospital’s private can cause real problems. It is time to decide what the nation’s real priorities are.
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lemuel how can,t you not understand the difference between political jobby and and building a sustainable economy.The writer talks about putting money into QeH (fair enough) however dismiss thefact that sustaining the QEH is dependable on projects which in long term can ease the
taxpayers burdens which for many years had shoulder the burden and cannot do so alone anymore due to the various high cost need to finance the QEH
Govt looking to another sources is one of the viable solutions to treat and cure. the malaise which has been going on for years and which has now reached the boiling point
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Whenever there is a discussion about how the limited money available to any health institution is spent, “rationing” comes up. Unfortunately, unless unlimited funds are available, hard choices have to be made about who to treat.
If a new anti-cancer drug costs $1 million a treatment and is expected to give someone another year of life, should the QEH supply it? Or would they be better restocking with the diabetes drugs and treating 500 patients? Is that rationing, or sensible use of resources?
The issue Dexter James brought up was whether patients should be kept on life support when the professional view is that they are “brain-dead” and will never recover.
In other countries they have criteria for deciding on brain death, and disconnect people from life support ventilators if there is no prospect of recovery. Do we do that here? If not, Dexter is correct in saying we should have a debate about whether it should be acceptable in our society.
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@ Lemuel March 2, 2015 at 7:57…”You sounding more and more like a spin doctor who is regurgitating talking points from a prepared text. You just posted a whole set of dribble about Errol Barrow. He was a man for his time”
Mr Blogger you are obviously a political gadfly who can only see through your filtered lens. You are simply the antithesis to AC; both of you are unable to see the forest from the party tent.
Any reasonable person who reads my posts would not label me a political spin doctor.
Thanks for reading my posts yesterday I hope they made non-bias sense and today now that you reflect under this impression of my spin, I still hope they make non-bias sense.
Now, we agree that Barrow was a man for his times. In many regards successful politicians are always men of their time.
If the fact that I can accept that and also recognize that the man was a cut above the average and would likely be a dynamo in whatever time he lived makes me in your eyes a DLP spin doctor then I bow gracefully to your spectacularly limited insight.
Go back and read some of the things I have said about Barrow and see how nonsensical your remarks are.
And btw, no need for me to go to the Pine to whoever John is, my Dad disliked Barrow’s as a person (in fact he is adamant that the free education issue is wrongly ascribed to Barrow as his big success), so I understand all that.
Someone said ‘welcome back’ to you a few days ago suggesting you were a regular contributor; so indeed from one who only recently joined the BU family it’s great to make your acquaintance.
Now, sir please cease and desist with your one-way political analysis. I really have no passion to debate dyed-in-the-wool partisans.
If you are serious then read and by all means criticize me with vigor and competent analysis but for all that’s practical stop being AC’s oppo cousin.
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I have one question……………who is going to be the one to play God?
Have Dexter James or any of the people who are taking this country further and further down, down, down into the back hole ever volunteered to give up their allowances to help save this country?
No, they are still drawing their large salaries and allowances but in the meanwhile have sent home thousands of the lowest paid workers to suck salt while they continue to enjoy the fat of the fatted calf.
I happen to be on a flight this past week and saw this ugly man we have as a PM sitting near me like a lord in first class…..thanks to the taxpayers of Barbados………(I paid for my ticket, ac). It galled the hell out of me knowing that this jackass and his policies are killing poor people and he flying about in style…..and to what purpose!
If these morons would admit that they cannot get the country run and resign, Dexter James would not have to be talking about playing God!
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How can we seriously discuss cost savings in healthcare specially at the QEH yet we do not manage through education/awareness activities to influence better dietary and fitness in the citizenry to promote healthy living. Why is Barbados the amputation capita of the world with high incidence of non communicable diseases?
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@ David
The management of the NCD diabetes which gives Barbados the unenviable position of first in the world as amputation capitol is understandably a very difficult thing to do WHEN it is not in the interest of our merchants, aided and abetted by our Ministry of Health led by its Nutrition Department and other state actors that are party to this crime.
It would seem simple to me that armed as we are with the trojanware reporting Lenova computers gifted by the People’s Republic of China that we could deploy a technical cooperation initiative with the same sovereign state spies to deploy a system whic would correlate relationships between what we import over the years and what is linked to the incidence of diabetes and what WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO BE IMPORTED.
The evidence seems to show that the cost of cure is no longer a viable option and, much like the Hunger Games movie, we will soon be running a lotto that will determine who lives and who dies.
But then again I am just an ole man who likes ruption and as part of that team of old menses with a grouse can only made these antiquated recommendations to our smart bright unequalled Ministers of Health and the rest of our budding euthanasia team
I see it now
A new tourism initiative “come to Barbados, go to Queen Elizabeth Hospital, and die”
We can even put in a bonus where, for a fee, “you can have our Minister of Tourism, Richard uncle Lookup Sealy, he who sees spirits in the corner floating above your head,of in your hospital room, when you are leaving this domain
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Of course we need to properly fund health care, including the QEH. We should long ago have set up a National Health System (NHS). funded much like the NIS. Everybody puts in, especially when we are young and healthy, and when we are sick we take out. And we should have regular discussions informed by health care professions, actuaries etc. as to how much money we need to put in and exactly when medical services we can afford to pay for.
That said every single health caresystem rations care, in that rich people in rich countries get the best possible health care, and poor people in poor countries get the very worse health care.
For Barbados we have to do the best we can with what we have, and right now we are fairly good, but not yet at excellent.
As for rationing end of life care, I’ve already told my children that WHEN, not if, I become terminally ill, and if I am unable to communicate that my children should use their best judgement to decide when to end my medical treatment.
We are born, we live, we die.
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@ David March 2, 2015 at 11:48 AM
Isn’t it a laughingly strange paradox that such a situation should exist in a country that boasts of one of the best educational systems in the world with one of the highest amounts of university graduates in the developing world and with the highest rate of penetration of medical practitioners per head of population?
But then again on the reverse said of this paradoxical coin shows the more “ doctors” of both the academic and medical kind the sicker the population. Same phenomenon exist with the priesthood and poor people. Just look at those countries with high incidences of teenage pregnancies, incest, gambling and crime and you would see many priests practising their craft of delusion and exploitation of the poor.
How can the leaders in the society consistently encourage Bajans to engage in healthy habits with the necessary dietary and lifestyle changes but are not prepared to look after these same Spartan-living citizens in their old age.
What’s the sense of missing out on the sensually sweet vices of life in your summer years only to be confronted with an uncaring “wishing-you-were-dead” attitude in the autumn of your life?
BTW, when is this myopically sanctimonious hypocritical administration going to set up a national health lottery to help fund the QEH before it is turned into a hospice for the terminally-ill to allow the likes of Dr. Kevorkian to flourish the same way lawyers automatically turn into politicians. The infrastructure and customer base are already in place; just requires the political will and moral integrity instead of hypocrisy.
I am sure that you, David (BU), would not mind spending a dollar or two per month to buy a ticket to help fund the QEH with the chance of winning $100,000.
PS: you can always go to your priest and get your absolution –prepaid or on credit (LOL!!).
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I would like to know the cost of treating a terminally ill patient at the QEH.
Do these patients require medicines that cost hundreds of dollars per week?
I am sure there are other “efficiencies” that can be found other than executiving patients.
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@DeeWord March 2, 2015 at 7:46 AM “And, although its not a popular thing this matter of completely free UE education is a debate we need to have.”
I wish that the phrase free education had never been used. Education in Barbados has NEVER been free.
Explain to me please if I paid >$20,000 in income taxes, plus NIS (the thing that foreigners like DeeWORD calls payroll taxes) + God only know how much in VAT, plus land tax, plus municipal solid waste taxes last year, and the same the year before that, and the year before that etc. etc. etc. how is it that education is free.
We Bajans pay for the education of our young people through OUR TAXES.
We Bajans pay for the cost of running the QEH and the polyclinics through OUR TAXES.
Even or maybe I should say especially our politicians like to talk as though Bajans are a group of people to whom the politicians give freebies.
We Bajan parents/taxpayers/voters/citizens pay for everything ,education, health, security, sanitation, and the salaries of politicians through our taxes.
We know that nothing is fre. We feel the pain everytime we pay taxes.
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@Lemuel March 2, 2015 at 7:49 AM “Tax payers monies do not become an automatic right for political parties in power to fly first class and finance stupid trips the USA and Europe.”
We should not be flying any politicians first class. If the politicians are not well enough to fly economy that they should stay at home or pay the difference between an economy ticket and the first class ticket themselves. If they had to do this you would see how much they would cut back on the lot of foolish trips.
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@St George’s Dragon March 2, 2015 at 9:52 AM ” unless unlimited funds are available, hard choices have to be made about WHO to treat. If a new anti-cancer drug costs $1 million a treatment and is expected to give someone another year of life, should the QEH supply it? Or would they be better restocking with the diabetes drugs and treating 500 patients? Is that rationing, or sensible use of resources?”
It should not be a matter of deciding WHO to treat, because then we will run into all sorts of problems. We should be deciding WHAT to treat.
So if the Prime Minister has stage 4 pancreatic cancer and we decide not to treat stage 4 pancreatic cancer, then stage 4 pancreatic cancer is not treated in the Prime Minister nor in the beggar.
And if we decide to give million dollar cancer treatments then both the Prime Minister’s cancer and the beggar’s cancer gets treated.
Your question: If a new anti-cancer drug costs $1 million a treatment and is expected to give someone another year of life, should the QEH supply it?
My answer: No. And that no includes me.
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@Prodigal Son March 2, 2015 at 10:37 AM “(I paid for my ticket)”
I hope that you did not pay for your ticket through overpriced government contract, or by over pricing your goods and services to the same poor people whom you profess to love so much.
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@Hants
There is a cost to allocate a bed.
@Miller
Your comment is well made.
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All this talk about free healthcare and free education is a big joke, what about the money that is taken out from our pay packets every week or every month, what was that for? Was it for the politicians to spend on themselves, and their friends? Can’t understand all this. Barbados has never been in this quagmire as it is now because of bad management practices by our present administration. They don’t care what happen to us, when they take sick they flyout to USA, Canada or the UK, on taxpayers budget, so, what do we expect now . This is what Barbadians voted for and they got it right up their street.
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Didn’t minister of health assure Barbadians a couple years ago a cut of 30 million to the QEH budget was not a problem? Where will the confidence come from if our manager of a key state department cannot be trusted to convey truth or make solid decisions not based on political poppycock?
On 2 March 2015 at 21:35, Barbados Underground wrote:
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Although QEH need to curtail costs – I would not suggest involuntary euthanasia is the way to go, without at the very least a discussion with the patient’s family. Barbados can’t put itself up there as having the premier acute hospital in the region and have the funds to buy basic equipment. Knowing doctors as I do, they are loyal to their cause so for them to be repeatedly speaking out as they have done – it must be pretty bad at QEH.
The question of tuition fees at UWI is a vexed one but may be fees could be levied on a sliding scaled based on the skills Bds needs at the lower end to those areas where there are an excess of skills so the students will either flood the local market or take their skills abroad.
On the issue of extra hotel beds, like the issue with the hospital and UWI, the government need to undertaken a demand / supply exercise otherwise the investment will be futile. There are numerous high end establishments in Barbados and to date these are not translating into forex or impacting ordinary people’s day to day experience. Unless there is a projection that many more high end tourists are going to come to occupy the additional rooms and that these hotels will be taxed appropriately and their patrons spend money in the community, such initiatives are of little value as they will only spread Barbados’s highend tourist offer too finely – resulting in all of these establishments ticking over as competition exceeds demand
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@ Prodigal Son March 2, 2015 at 10:37 AM
“I happen to be on a flight this past week and saw this ugly man we have as a PM sitting near me like a lord in first class…..thanks to the taxpayers of Barbados………(I paid for my ticket, ac). It galled the hell out of me knowing that this jackass and his policies are killing poor people and he flying about in style…..and to what purpose!”
Some people are born rich, most are born poor, some are born intelligent and very few are born lucky.
Now which category do you think Mr. Fumble falls into?
Since we all know your answer how else can we explain the current status of Mr. Lying Integrity? Where else in the world would a so-called educated ‘pretentiously’ sophisticated people select a boringly classless man of bold-faced lies like that as their leader?
That sesquipedalian is nothing more than a lucky ‘sob’ posing as an academic fart.
He does have something in common with the storybook character Pinocchio.
But in the case of Fumble the more ‘blackened’ lies he tells the uglier he becomes.
The man is not one of original thought or action; just a robotic clown of repetition who screws up everything he puts his hands on. He has the propensity of plagiarizing other people’s phrases such as the now locally famous “monstrous perversion of commonsense”. But he can certainly lay claim to the aptness of the phrase: ‘a monstrous perversion of beauty and intelligence’.
When are the sugar cane farmers going to get the long-promised money? How long does it take to sort out paper work, Robot Clown ?
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miller when are u going to get over the Fact that ugly or dark as midnight Freundel Stuart is and will be Barbados PM until the next election is called 2018 ,and there is not a dam thing you can do about it so holler squeal like a wild boar all you want ,you just have to grin and bear until that time come,
And on the issue of privilege to fly , Who do you think pays the president of The USA Travelling allowance every dime of it, whether the country is going through good times or bad. CLOWN
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@ Simple Simon March 2, 2015 at 2:09 PM #
@Prodigal Son March 2, 2015 at 10:37 AM “(I paid for my ticket)”
I hope that you did not pay for your ticket through overpriced government contract, or by over pricing your goods and services to the same poor people whom you profess to love so much…………………………
Sorry to disappoint you but do you really think that this government would give me a contract? Why would you jump to such a conclusion? I have never benefited from a government contract…….of that I can assure you.
The only time I got government money was way back when I left university and entered the public service. I stay for less than a year, could not deal with the backward way the public service is run……..so do not try to ascribe motives to me.
And yes….I do my part to help……..up to this evening a guy came up to my car and asked me for money to buy pampers for his child…….I gave him, whether he was lying I would not know but I gave as I felt sorry for the child. So pleased be advised that I help those who have been made beggars by this inept, incompetent bunch of morons!
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sooner or later govts going to have to take a closer look at casinos, as bajans would not concede to the realities of the financial burden that is going to make it almost impossible for barbadians not to pay for necessary health care, or a mandatory Health insurance plan similar to USA would have to be implemented, Folks the free lunch is all but over
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@ millertheanunnaki March 2, 2015 at 7:00 PM #
………That sesquipedalian is nothing more than a lucky ‘sob’ posing as an academic fart.
He does have something in common with the storybook character Pinocchio.
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Oh my goodness, miller…..that is a good one. I am here laughing my head off! Top shot, that!
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Isn’t it so very stupid how some respond to the problem by feeding it with an economic option? Why not impose a fat tax, nuisance tax, fast food tax, sweet drink tax whatever you want to call it. If we continue to feed the appetites of people with unhealthy menus across the island what do we think will happen on the non communicable diseases front using one example?
And we say we are educated?
On Monday, 2 March 2015, Barbados Underground wrote:
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David,
The only person who believed that the QEH’s budget could be cut by $30 million and the delivery of care would not be greatly compromised was the minister John Boyce……an idiot! The DLP chickens are coming home to roost!
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For the life of me, I do not understand how Barbadians can continue to enrich the Haloutes by buying Cheffete every day.
The food is expensive, the service is lousy at these fast food outlets, I am told as I never buy the stuff, yet people flock to these fast food joints who by their very size should tell them that they should stay far away from fast food.
I know times are hard but when you see what people are buying in the supermarket, it is not the healthy stuff. I had a word with my local supermarket recently……I saw a worker throwing away so much spoiled fruits and vegetables…..tomatoes at the time were like three on a tray for over $7. I said to the manager, why would you continue to price fruits and vegetables so high and then have so much to throw away when they could have been all sold at a cheaper price? He took me all around the world with the explanation.
That being said, just as Mr A-1 promoted proper pork, maybe now is the time to start promoting a healthy life style.
By the way, was Mara Thompson not supposed to be championing some healthy life styles programme? I am sure that some time during her beloved husband’s reign that she was trying to do something like this in conjunction with the MOH!
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now look at that tax , sounds dumb and stupid when the rippling effects would all but cause business to close shops sending more people to the unemployment line and looking for govt handouts.
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@Prodigal Son
The Halloutes can do it because they are contributors to BOTH political parties.
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The fact is that govt cannot implement measures that would hurt business under the guise of curtailing people’s likes or dislike. govt roles is not one fold ,govt interest is to have a semblance of control that creates balance not leaning too heavily on one side to achieve a desired result, but having checks and balances that would not be aggravating or damaging to one side or another in the long run.
the tax on food in addition to vat would be horrendous and people would hold back rather than spend and as a result the impact of these business would take a horrific toll
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Miller:
You seem really upset.
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@ David March 2, 2015 at 8:00 PM
So you have now come around to my much touted “FAT TAX” proposal?
I am sure such a levy on fast food establishments will not only help Government with its fiscal situation but also act a means to get some of the rubbish of the streets and empty lots, especially in Bridgetown and the South Coast through the take-away container collection and return facility similar to the bottle deposit and return system in place for ‘sweet drinks’ and other ‘diabetes’ carriers.
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@ Lemuel March 2, 2015 at 8:49 PM
More like totally pissed off with so-called educated Bajans to allow their country, once well managed, to fall into such an awful state of disrepair and despair.
EWB and Wynter Crawford must be pissing themselves with shame.
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@Miller
The best way to solve any problem is tackling it at the source.
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DeeWord
Do be careful…
I have no idea about Lemuel’s politics. But if he IS a “political gadfly” good for him. It means he’s NOT a party hack. Is BU a “gadfly’?
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A ” fast food tax” should have been introduced long time ago, fast food joints should have been limited. This is the main cause of expenses at the Q.E.H. Don’t you see how many people are just walk and dropping down dead in Barbados over the last five to ten years?
All those who are agreeing with Dr. James proposal will only change their minds when a close family, relative or friend is diagnosed with a terminal illness.
There are many ways to ease expenses, reduce the cabinet, cut back on overseas travel, ease the taxes which would allow a wider circulation on money in the society, sell most if not all those SUV’s messengers used just to take around documents and replace them with motorcycles and small engine vehicles, stop the misuse of government vehicles by “privileged” ordinary employees using them as their domestic/family transportation. These are just a few suggestions, I’m sure there are many more. Dr. James many of these poor people who you want to terminate their lives are the ones who built this nation. Are they now to be executed like a sick dog? Is this what this country is coming to?
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Well said, Loyal Bajan!
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This man is a real idiot, how could you ration sickness. David Thompson brought him here from Trinidad to sink QEH with the other idiot John Boyce. Illness is something no one want but it happens, sometime it doesn’t matter how well one eats or exercise, we are humans beings, and sickness comes along, should we kill all who take sick. The present administration don’t care they prefer to support the council they set up than to put money into QEH for Barbadians who pay their taxes day in and day out.
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Just Asking
Maybe you don’t see what they are planning, if all or most of the sick old people and a large percentage of the sick young and middle age poor people are allow to expire, then the pensions will become manageable, unemployment will come down and the politicians would have more money to PLAY with. Maybe life will be easier for those who don’t get too sick. It is said WAR is used to balance the population, it doesn’t always have to be a “guns” war.
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I am a nurse worked at the QEH for years, and this is the worst administration we have ever had in Barbados. QEH has it’s problems because too many politicians put their foot in their mouth to try and run things there, but this has been the worst it has ever been because of bad management. Can anyone in this life ration healthcare, what a diabolical situation we are having, and Barbadians sitting back and allowing this to happen.
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ac March 2, 2015 at 7:52 PM “Folks the free lunch is all but over.”
But ac there has never been a free lunch.
We the taxpayers have always paid for everything…
including the free lunches eaten by the Parliamentarians, even on days when we cannot afford to buy a bread and two for lunch for ourselves.
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Can someone tell me why 60 million dollars were spent on a polyclinic in St John which was to open since June 2012? Maybe that’s the injection of cash which the QEH needed to survive.
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