{"id":195414,"date":"2017-05-31T12:39:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T16:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/mab-chief-catastrophic-health-insurance-plan-can-be-hammered-out"},"modified":"2017-06-11T21:59:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T01:59:45","slug":"mab-chief-catastrophic-health-insurance-plan-can-be-hammered-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2017\/05\/mab-chief-catastrophic-health-insurance-plan-can-be-hammered-out","title":{"rendered":"MAB Chief: Catastrophic Health Insurance Plan Can Be \u2018Hammered Out\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"mct_ai_excerpt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-195498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lg-sy-pierre-167x250.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lg-sy-pierre-167x250.png 167w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lg-sy-pierre-100x150.png 100w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lg-sy-pierre.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 167px) 100vw, 167px\" \/>The Medical Association of the Bahamas (MAB) president believes it will be possible to \u201chammer out\u201d a catastrophic health insurance plan, but emphasised: \u201cYou can\u2019t look at healthcare in a vacuum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sy Pierre told Tribune Business that the Minnis administration\u2019s plan for \u201ca progressive and functional\u201d catastrophic NHI programme could be achieved, provided it abandoned its predecessor\u2019s approach and properly involved healthcare industry stakeholders in its creation.<\/p>\n<p>Suggesting that the definition of \u2018catastrophic care\u2019 was key, Dr Pierre suggested it was better to determine this by monetary value rather than type of illness.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tribune242.com\/news\/2017\/may\/29\/mab-chief-catastrophic-health-insurance-plan-can-b\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the complete article at www.tribune242.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Medical Association of the Bahamas (MAB) president believes it will be possible to \u201chammer out\u201d a catastrophic health insurance plan, but emphasised: \u201cYou can\u2019t look at healthcare in a vacuum.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":195498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}