Imagine if the government were to make the same promise
In between tying myself up in knots I'm going to be the best health minister you never had
This is from a report of a Labour Party meeting last Sunday:
Dr Abela said his party pledged to pay for private health care for people who had been waiting for a long time for surgery and to refund money that people paid to buy medicines which were out of stock from the government pharmacy.
Who owns Malta’s only private hospitals? Nationalist MEP candidate Frank Portelli and Azzjoni Nazzjonali MEP candidate (and one-time Nationalist politician) Josie Muscat.
Now imagine if the government were to even think of implementing a scheme whereby people on the Mater Dei waiting-lists are given private treatment at St Philip’s Hospital or St James’ Hospital.
The Labour Party would interpret this immediately as a cunning plan to put money in Frank Portelli’s pocket, using Josie Muscat as a blind.
I don’t think the less-than-brilliant Toni Abela understands the implications of his promise.
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I visit hospitals frequently. I saw George Abela humbly queuing together with Mrs Abela at the day ward of Mater Dei before he was nominated president and also happened to see MLP VIPs at Saint James Hospital waiting on the sofas.
I also see MLP medical specialists serving in all the three hospitals.
Toni and friends wouldn’t care less who foots their private health care bill.
[Daphne – As long as it’s not them….]
I’m not 100% sure about this, but I think it is the EU (commission or courts) that has ruled that a patient who is made to wait too long for treatement has the right to get it done privatly and then charge the state.
I know there were cases in the UK where patients went abroad to have ops done pivately and then charfe the NHS.
Which I imagine would cost a lot more than having it done at a local private facility.
[Daphne – You’re a little bit confused.]