Dear Editor,

Prime Minister Perry Christie continues to refer to the opposition to his government's National Health Insurance (NHI) plan as if the naysayers were opposed to universal healthcare as a general principle. Someone should tell him that this is not the problem at all. Many of us support NHI as a concept; we just don't trust he and his colleagues to be the ones to usher it in.

To date, we have no conclusive evidence about they have been spending our money. Meanwhile, wherever we get a hint about what is going on behind the scenes - BAMSI, the Small Homes Repair Project, etc. - (usually as the result of a leak) the picture is not pretty.

As far as the public can tell, a group of drunken sailors could manage our fiscal affairs better than the current Cabinet. They have already saddled us with value-added tax (VAT), causing increased hardship to untold numbers of Bahamians, and we have no way of knowing if they are spending that money responsibly.

Now, they want to tax us again, this time for NHI. If we had some faith or trust that this would work out to our collective benefit in the long run, there would be far less opposition. Sadly, the PLP have used up all their goodwill with the public. All that is left is skepticism and distrust.

- F. Bain

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