The recent barrage of articles on Vitals Global Healthcare has left goose bumps of angst under my American dermis.
As a former nurse with experience in the unravelling of the US healthcare delivery system, I ask what in the world would possess the Maltese government to look for guidance from a group of ‘for profit’ American healthcare consultants.
Steward Health Care System prides itself in establishing lucrative private hospitals eyeing profits, not developing an equitable healthcare system for all. This privatisation model is failing America. Please Malta do not make the same mistake America has – healthcare for the rich and the few. The existing blend of private/public hospitals has already established a workable and flexible system for Malta.
Behind the spurious rhetoric of the Labour Party, one can perceive smoke signals beaconing to the medical tourism market, not an earnest endeavour to enhance health services for the public.