Ramaphosa’s NHI Bill: Political strategy or healthcare catastrophe?

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s narrative at the signing of the NHI Bill was jarringly dishonest and divisive.

Put aside the fact that the NHI is uncosted by the Treasury and unaffordable according to experts, including Ramaphosa, who previously publicly expressed doubts that the money could be found. Hence the recent rash of public announcements of new government initiatives, most of which have been old initiatives dressed up with a new bonnet.And hence the presidential playacting.

Fearful whites had been so afraid of blacks having the right to vote that they had hoarded tinned food to prepare for calamity, said Ramaphosa. Instead, “only progress” happened. They had been scared also of the right to strike. Instead, the economy grew “almost threefold”. That’s not only substantially lower than our fellow Brics members Brazil, Russia, India and China, but also our African neighbours.

Aside from pinning their hopes on a successful Constitutional Court challenge, the NHI’s opponents comfort themselves with predictions that it will take a long time to implement.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

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