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Introduction of Medicare
Quasi Healthcare Insurance Exchange
Agwo Tata (Representing PATH SYSTEM in Diaspora) presented Path System objectives, mission, challenges and implementation strategy. Meta people in Diaspora will assist but each villager must be first and foremost his/her own Medical Doctor. Poor health and poverty are bedfellows with each sustaining the other. Agwo advised that each villager who is willing to work will be provided the ability to work through obtaining micro-investment loans. Each investor of a program will be given a card to present when he/she is ill and goes to the hospital for medical care. The card will serve a a quasi medical insurance form similar to Medicare in the United States. Our outreach programs serve as Medicaid, a program structured for the elderly, disabled and orphan children. These structures are designed to obtain subsidize medications from pharmacies for outpatients. Villagers interested in farming corn, groundnuts, beans and breading pigs will be provided resources through microfinance programs.
Mr. Tata noted the opening of markets such as Tad and Mbengwi market to sell their produce. As a result, other businesses will expand in Meta such as storage houses and whole sale buyers. If beneficiaries of loans pay the small interest and loan regularly, they can obtain additional loans and land for business expansion. Groups can obtain micro-loans for larger projects. Ngyen-Mbo and Mbengwi have been selected to be the first farming zones. Each zone will have 400 farmers who qualify for non-collateral loans. Villagers are encouraged to be donors of PATH System.
Path System planners estimate that the cooperatives managing portfolios of members will turn into a credit union and eventually the first commercial Bank in Meta. Member Donors’ amounts will be converted into shares. But first, the goal is to build a healthy working class of farmers and other investors. We must create a friendly environment to support investments. This includes development of civil societies and legal structures to ensure transparency and accountability. Such programs are detailed in the PATH SYSTEM strategic plan.
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