Among the Christie
administration's extraordinary failures and wasteland of broken promises,
was the abandonment of the Bahamian people on health care.  On
April 4th, 2002, Opposition Leader Perry Gladstone Christie declared:

 

"I want to
create a system of National Health Insurance so that poor people will
stop dying simply because they are too poor to pay for medical attention.  
This is the greatest national disgrace of all!  How can we call
ourselves a caring, compassionate society when the difference between
whether a young child lives or dies depends on whether he or she is
covered by private health insurance or not; or whether the parents have
money to pay for the..."