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| Written by Richard Green/richard@fptci.com | |||
| Thursday, 03 May 2012 09:06 | |||
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The National Health Insurance Board is considering how to continue insuring people who are unemployed longer than 90 days, at which time they lose insurance under current rules. “This important issue was discussed at the last NHIB Board Meeting, and the organisation is currently examining various options,” government CEO Patrick Boyle said in a May 2 statement. “While I understand that no formal decisions have been made, I believe that this includes the options of contributory payments by unemployed persons or an extension beyond the 90-day period. I am sure that they will further inform the people of the TCI of these in due course.” Boyle, who is acting governor now while His Excellency the Gov. Ric Todd is in the U.K., was responding to an open letter from Dr. Rufus Ewing to the governor asking for action on what Ewing called the unemployment “anomaly.” “I thank Dr. Rufus Ewing for his insightful and thoughtful reflections on the funding arrangements of the National Health Insurance Board (NHIB),” Boyle said. “Dr. Ewing is well placed to offer such a valuable perspective given his central role in developing the policy that led to the creation of the NHIB.” Until he left his government job in March to run for Progressive National Party leader and possibly premier, Ewing was the country’s director of health services and a member of the NHIB. He also was a member of the NHIB Steering Committee that implemented the National Health Insurance Plan. Ewing’s letter also claims that the government is not paying its share of contributions to the NHIP, a claim that Boyle said is not true. “I am pleased to confirm that the Turks and Caicos government is fully up to date with its contributions to both the NHIP and, for that matter, the National Insurance Board also,” Boyle said. “Specifically, government transferred $25 million to the NHIB in the last financial year to assist with its costs. Of this, $12 million was transferred to meet the cost of the Treatment Abroad Program and Contributions for Wards of State; and $13 million was cover the cost of Clinical Service payments and ICL Reconciliation Payments.”
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