HEALTH Minister Dr Perry Gomez yesterday said government’s consideration of a new tax to fund its proposed National Health Insurance scheme is “not surprising,” stating that the best way to pay for the plan is “through some tax where everybody is paying a little bit toward a single goal.”
However, Dr Gomez told The Tribune that he has no specific insight on what the government plans to do to fund NHI. Nonetheless, he said, that for a “project as huge as NHI will be, we have to pay for it somehow down the road”...
HEALTH Minister Dr Perry Gomez yesterday said government’s consideration of a new tax to fund its proposed National Health Insurance scheme is “not surprising,” stating that the best way to pay for the plan is “through some tax where everybody is paying a little bit toward a single goal.”
However, Dr Gomez told The Tribune that he has no specific insight on what the government plans to do to fund NHI. Nonetheless, he said, that for a “project as huge as NHI will be, we have to pay for it somehow down the road”...
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