00:00The association is looking forward to the government's own promises it would have made
00:05in its manifesto and previously and previous commitments given by several successive governments
00:11since health sector reform and that promise of creating a national health insurance system.
00:19This will allow the public health care system to have its own funding sources and not have to be
00:28totally reliant on the subvention from the government which is often fluctuates and it is
00:36placed in a predicament whenever there is some other major issue on the agenda.
00:44The temptation by successive governments to tap in to that finance being given to health care
00:52and be redirected to some other purpose.
00:56So this is why we are seeing similar to what property tax would have envisioned, where
01:02property tax would have gone direct to the corporations, the regional corporations, so
01:07too it is envisioned that this national health insurance system, the funding that is generated
01:13from it will go towards offsetting the costs of health care in Trinidad and Tobago.
01:18The Beagle!
01:19The Beagle!
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