 Mwita kwa mwitaku mwitaku na omini za glifia, kwa widula kwa kutalizai mahii nga kwa mwitaku na omini na mwitaku. N tidele kwa mwitaku na okeya, nja mwitaku na okeya jaya mwitaku isu nga klashika ka indo na mommy. Mwitaku mwitaku osolunaka mwitaku na mwitaku. Natwa mwitaku lisha na mwitaku zara kwa mwitaku na mwitaku. Mwitaku kwa mwitaku na okeya, ahma nfutupia kwa mwitaku na tifiki pwiza, nkwa tifiki 31m Solushansi, 2.5% for health and security is hurting the people but the prime minister on record spoke to and he referred to a while ago that it wasn't about the rabbi and security is about health insurance and I heard on a talk on some public statement that they would they would provide to every solution health insurance or he's not in his head in agreement before them saying unhappy because when we come in this house we always speak the truth and he's not in his head in acknowledgement of the truth he would provide every solution every solution with approximately three quarters of a million wolf of health insurance there about I heard 750,000 dollars a there about whatever it is or 75,000 dollars wolf of health insurance every year but I happen to do my investigation and I found out that there is a premium the government would have had to pay to secure health insurance for every solution because you do not get insurance for free it's not a free lunch so every year the government would have had to pay a premium I'm not getting into that yet but the premium is more than what the two and a half percent is being collected over 50 million dollars annually and intended to come to this house to raise for the same security means that we raised it to pay the premium annually you don't you you could say what you want now as a matter of fact in the statement by the former prime minister he indicated that we must bite the bullet he's exact words we must bite the bullets and I had to investigate what's the meaning of bite the bullets bite the bullet is when you are about to do something that is unpleasant when you have to do something that is difficult when you have to do something that is bitter a bitter medicine to provide health insurance but while you was about to provide health insurance the hospital was incomplete therefore you have to export and import medical services over from somewhere else I had somebody called on came on city so send luchans would have and I'm coming to the health insurance thing because I am I was I had a bout of medical problems and I had to go to the medical insurance and I'll tell you what this former prime minister had implants for send luchans they would we would not have a hospital no they would give it came on city they will give it they would import all services and they would give every send luchans health insurance yes because some people already have health insurance so they would discount them but if the calculations and I have a copy of it are today first member of the country so prime minister right member of the country so please how are you minister you could there is a member from microsoft you have the member that is misleading the house mr speaker okay I have I have zero I have zero difficulty if if if the member wants to have a discussion and maybe that would be something that we can do in a subcommittee but the reality is mr speaker his interpretation of what was doing is grossly inadequate and inaccurate okay there was never an attempt to have came in health city run the entire hospital came in health city was going to provide professional services to train our staff to run our basic hospital and they were going to run an international hospital of services that we are not currently providing and the way that the insurance works mr speaker is yes government would make a contribution to the premiums for the persons the mothers who are unemployed for the unemployed in salushia for the poorest of the poor we would be government would pay that part but everybody else who had a job mr mr speaker would pay like NIC 50 50 and if the if the business house chose to pay more so be it but that would raise over 80 million dollars a year to be able to fund the operations of the hospital okay mr speaker but the prime minister said it 80,000 people at a thousand dollars is 80 million dollars mr mr speaker member for kashri so please please please please thank you very much mr speaker so the former prime minister the former prime minister had intentions had intentions to come to this house the prime minister had intentions to come to this honorable house to raise a levy to all to pay for medical insurance mr speaker mr speaker yes mr speaker so when i calculated the figure and i and i spoke with the individual who prepared the proposal for the then government and i asked because i did some law suggesting and i work with magical i yes i've done some some law suggesting mr speaker can bear me witness on this and i understand what it is to work with insurance companies i did a lot of work after harrick and maria in dominica so yes there was a proposal to provide insurance to the country and that insurance would have saved would have been the appeal for everybody to have access to healthcare and there was a certain amount to be paid annually but when i heard this i took it and i listened but there was a statement i went back to that the prime then prime minister made in the parliament when introduced it and it is that statement mr speaker that is important in the house today that people of san lucia we must bite the bullet why would you tell san lucians that they must bite the bullet why at what time do you use that phrase that you must bite the bullet mr speaker i did not rely on my own knowledge of what the meaning is i consulted google and it remind me of certain terms and i said yes that's where i am the unpleasantness of a decision how difficult the decision is brandy you have been quiet all the time i think you should remain that way you understand not because lowly me speaking that member of the country itself is you understand do not refer to the member the member for me could so thank you very much you understand but i'm saying that this was the difficulty that would be upon san lucians but now we did not tell the former prime minister did not tell san lucians they must bite the bullet he engaged them in open discussion about the 2.5 percent levy but notice when the former prime minister would embark upon health insurance for san lucians there was no hospital in place none it means that the services would have to be imported if you need a brain surgery you would they would find you a place when you are in a situation where you have purchased health insurance in that form you are exposed and you are vulnerable because you need to buy services in accordance to what your value is mr speaker i try to imagine they would have to get the cheapest hospital because if you have already concluded is $75,000 that's in the basket and you need services costing from a hospital $150,000 you would not get it so they would need to go and shop and wrong and god knows what would have ended up with san lucians but once yet mr speaker i have an issue there battling with an insurance company when they tell you that the amount that you must pay is as high as more everest but you must contribute 20 percent which is equivalent to mon jimi that you cannot climb i know you do not understand that because you do not know poverty in this country yes it's a strange herring you understand but i will tell you you have oh yes i do oh yes i do oh yes i do oh yes i do let me tell you something about poverty let me tell you something about poverty and that you have not lived mr from a prime minister my mom used to wash clothes for a living and i used to carry the clothes on my head from a two black marie to my mother's home and while i am carrying the clothes the dirty clothes on my head the blanket would start to untie and cover my face and i would smell the stench of the people dirty clothes and i have not lost the smell in my nostrils up to there today up to the i can tell you the smells but it never leaves you mother herring of it it doesn't leaves you i know it up to today that's why i know you i do not know you by your name i do not know you by your conduct i know you by experience because i've experienced you from the time of a child people like you do not understand and will never understand oh yes i do or know about you and that is why i'm saying to you this morning that is why i'm saying to you this morning oh yes well i i i probably do not know but i know some things well let me tell you i know some things and i will tell you this morning oh i'll proceed oh yes you know everything about everybody yes so i will tell you this morning that because of the situation of poverty because of the situation of difficulties in these countries because of what we have to do the former the minister of health had to approach had to approach universal healthcare in the manner that he did that we do not lose our hospital while we provide a basket of goods for persons that when they go to an insurance company they will not deny them because right now i have a hospital bill before insurance company and the percentage they willing to pay that difference is difficult do you know what it costs one day in the hospital in matnik and you making noise about hospitals hospitals hospitals i did spend some time in the icu at hospital but i did not just rely on my healthcare i decide to engage doctors and thank god for the doctors who engage when i ask them question and ask what is the cost of running your hospital oh my god i was shocked the cost of running the matnik hospital is equivalent to the same size of our national budget 1600 million euros a year of which 60 percent was directly to staff so when you go to matnik for healthcare the bill will be high how do you ask a government whose national budget is equivalent to the operations of matnik hospital to do what matnik is doing and how do you get there how do you get there or you do it for insurance to give one man or one company the entire health of in one business deal in one business deal when you have not invested a saint in your hospital you let the the saint hospital stay behind for three years no hospital but you going to go and buy insurance for all the solutions and the broker i heard the broker who would be processing the claims four persons who get sick was from inside because the business look well do you don't know about that no well when you do your proposers you must ask all the questions no when i see it wasn't when i see no i'll not respond to you so i'm telling you when you speak when you speak about healthcare and about a 2.5 percent levi do not discuss it in those terms because this is an honorable it's a positive it's a progressive method of providing healthcare that provides security for the citizens of saint rusha it is incremental but it is the best way insurance companies have fine lines you know they tell me they not paying for that medicine they tell me they not paying for that surgery they tell me they not paying for this professional because it's not allowed in the in what i i i agreed with them so today when they agree to pay 70 percent i have to come up with 45 000 dollars they're about how does the ordinary saint rusha who buy healthcare via an insurance company which is your approach to solution of healthcare in this country resolve these issues how are you telling me the poor will not get heart attack are you telling me the poor saint rusha will not require bed brain surgery how how will they do that but i understand that is a lazy way when election is approaching it's a lazy way but the progressive developmental cautious way as we put in the basket medical support for pregnant prenatal and postnatal care we are able to test it we are able to see how it work and perfect it and then we will put the concerns and then we will put other medical issues as we develop our hospitals internally to provide health for our people and this is like what my great grandmother and my grandmother and my mother did for those of you who have not experienced poverty on a Sunday morning when things rough at home before my mother sends me down the road she would say kitima wa kisa kilapu chuit she doesn't say anyone buy food before she investigates what ingredients are in the house you understand and sometimes it is critical enough to make some flour take some lentils add some green flour and make a healthy food and you didn't have to go and buy something in the shop because Monday you need exercise and pencils this is a developing country approach this is but you are the same prime minister same prime minister former prime minister same former prime minister and i'll speak some other time again who said that you went to a school you went to a school and the teachers told you that the school toilets are not in order oh yeah don't leave that for another day night saying it i go in there and you said the toilets are not in order but am i not the one who fixed the toilet last week you said the teacher the principal of the school called the parents of the children and tell them if they're not coming to fix the school close it your school close the school my god i listen to this clip over and over and over and over again and i ask myself what kind of leader who tells a principal of a school that if the children are not coming if the children parents are not coming to fix the toilets in the school that shut it down shut it down yes i said wow you know what i thought of and thank god there was investigation in my education that domestic toilets you put in schools are not children friendly and wasko also do not have water all times in the school so the children always trying to get it to crush you will not blame wasko you will not blame the fact that you or we sometimes invest money unwisely for schools because toilet for schools are over three hundred three thousand dollars per one they are smaller they are colored they are more friendly designed for children but you put domesticated toilets in a school and you say you must punish the children because the schools the children have some toilets and problem a leader doesn't say that a leader doesn't say such a thing insensitivity and you come here and you tell me that you care about poor people my decision i bought one keep body damage it i bought the second one damage it i bought the most expensive one and it became an accomplished keep on player before he died i believe in investing in children because they had a heritage of the world and they had a future of st lucha that's what we believe in not to punish them because they made an error or you do not know what it is to have children and maybe and make them make errors maybe you do not know that i don't know i'm asking so when you stand here today and i listen to so much of what has been said and today today i said i would not say anything but honestly i've heard it enough i've heard enough no today is my first day today is my first day no no no you have not heard me yet so you have not heard me yet i can tell you have not heard me yet but i'll tell you a lot of what has been said by you had it been to a saint lushan who carries a different accent it would not have been registered in the way that it is registered because saint lushans love your accent i like to hear this there's a sing song story about when people were different to us speak it reminds me of the bullion of life where you put the carrot the meat and the thing so in garyana they call it the there's a name in garyana they call that mix you understand in they call it the the the some bullion type that's what it is no because we are custom having all different persons in our population who speak and we relate to you understand so i'm telling you while i listen but i'm telling you you get away with too many too many things and today i'm setting the record straight enough is enough come good come straight and there's room for that kind of opposition but if you're going to continue to mislead this country we will speak out and we can tell saint lushans exactly where it is your approach and asking saint lushans for work because of the two point levy is deceiving and regressing progression if you can campaign on this you could never govern on this so be real with saint lushans because we have a real people a real country to move forward thank you mr speaker