Thursday, February 14, 2013

Medical Association Wants VAT on Medicines Removed

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12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Micah, you alone would accept what the ministry stated in the last paragraph. The call for the government to remove the dreaded VAT on medicine has been loud, clear and widespread. Yet, to this day, the government has said or done nothing about it. As for the minister and her staff they are not to be trusted. It is becoming clear that the government does not care about the people's health. It cares only about raising revenue to undertake political projects. The SLMADA too must also become a lot more vocal on this matter.

February 14, 2013 at 1:04 PM
Anonymous said...

The SLMADA too must also become a lot more vocal on this matter.

You mean the cost of consultation.

February 14, 2013 at 5:39 PM
Anonymous said...

The SLMADA must have a conscience and become involved in advocacy without getting a consultation fee. Doctors here are already milking the cow too much. They need to do more for us without payment upfront. Among them are some very inefficient ones. The removal of VAT on medecine means that doctors will benefit in sales and prescription because many of them sell sample drugs, the legal ones, in their offices. Others are partners in the established Drug Stores all over our Saint Lucia.

February 15, 2013 at 3:22 AM
Anonymous said...

Ame, bloggers, Amen to that. Well said.

But importantly the University certificate collectors, cannt think for the Country's good sake. and for the peoples well-being.

They just adopt any old model from IMF/IBRD/EU/WTO/UN without critical thinking or for that matter proper understanding to recognize whether the citizens would be better or worse off.

It may also be too, that they the don't give one heck about the well-being of the masses.

They are even too nervous at those negotiating meetings to speak with those folks, because they do not have the competence to present plausible options, or adjustments etc.

All the countries that have implemented VAT a-la-WTO style have inwardly recognized that it is repressive and is causing great harm to the citizens and the economy at large. And that includes Barbados. They are struggling to cope.

The initial 15 percent VAT is being found to be inadequate for all the countries. So what will happen, is that Governments will increase and increase, and the masses will get more and more money frittered away from their disposable income and get poorer and poorer. More and more indigents, growing by leaps and bounds. Leading to more and more crime, and increasing social disorder.

They should have never played politics with the introduction of the VAT.



February 15, 2013 at 12:04 PM
Anonymous said...

Blogger above, note that both Jamaica and Guyana are still reeling from the IMF medicine given to them in the mid-1980's.

These countries are still sick and yet to recover, some thirty years later.

So what next? Their citizens run out of their countries, with all their so-called intellectuals, picking up shit in people's yards, in droves, among other things.

February 15, 2013 at 12:10 PM
Anonymous said...

The economic models come as a one-size fits all.

But in the real world, the one-size fits all polo shirts, don't fit many folks.

They are often much too small or much too big. So there you have it.

February 15, 2013 at 12:13 PM
Anonymous said...

You all ask for it, so why cry now? En Rouge ca pea' tae choo zot.

February 15, 2013 at 12:25 PM
Anonymous said...

Above en rouge my foot, who you trying to fool, you believe our minds are so shallow and we cannot remember? It was your daught PM King who did all the ground work and went ahead with most of the legislation for the implemention of VAT. VAT is in it infantry stage, alot of things are not perfect, let us wait for the budget to fix some of the things which is not working well. Let us stop putting politics in everything.

February 15, 2013 at 8:43 PM
Anonymous said...

A VAT became absolutely necessary to pay for the inanities like Roacha Smell, Black Hole. No that was Black Bay and now Hamberg. Nah! That should be Greenberg.

He signed away nearly $500 millions plus from the treasury, for what I was told, happened to be the emeperor's new clothes.

We are now catching our tails paying for this avoidable financial blundering each and every time the SLP forms the government.

The calypso says that "wha sweet in goat teet go sour in he tail".

That is how far we have come and how much the SLP party and followers really care.

To me, it sounds almost exactly the same. Of Saint Lucia, each time the SLP party idiots shout "en rouge", they might as well be saying "entre chu@@&&ye".

February 16, 2013 at 7:39 AM
Anonymous said...

Always disappoints me when bloggers resort to partisan slurs to make a point. I'm also disappointed by how passive we've become as a nation. A government imposes a 15% tax during trying economic times and we accept it. Has the imposition of burdensome taxes ever encouraged economic growth?! Who is the PM's economic advisor?

February 16, 2013 at 9:41 PM
Anonymous said...

'Who is the PM's economic advisor? '

The PM has 3 law degrees! He knows it all. Economics does not explain as the declaration of a state of emergency. That is the kind of economics a doctorate in law teaches.

February 18, 2013 at 1:16 PM
Anonymous said...

I got you. In other words, the PM, even with three law degrees,knows little or nothing about economics. He is not equipped to govern the country in a democracy. I agree. Elsewhere the other cabinet boys, pip, in particular, are boldly chastised for allowing the PM to push them ahead while he stay in the background. According to the critics the PM realizes his own limitation and unwittingly allows them to take the stoning for him.

February 19, 2013 at 1:21 PM

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