When Dr Chua Soi Lek first came to office, he apparently called for a meeting of all senior officers and when asked about the priority of problems at the Ministry of Health, he reportedly was inundated with numerous comments about the dastardly troubles private hospitals had created and how they and their devious doctors were leeching the poor Malaysian public and something had to be done urgently.

The gullible Chua, ever willing to show off the political strongman that he conjured himself to be, wasted no time in implementing the shelved PHFSA and together with his DG, bamboozled it recklessly utilizing the BN’s brute but now mercifully clipped majority in Parliament, brushing off all objections against the Act just so he can show who’s boss.