The SA government – incapable of regulating either the public or private health sectors in SA – cannot be expected to successfully manage both under the monopoly that the proposed NHI would constitute.
Anthea Jeffery says the proponents of the NHI are silent about the size of the bureaucracy required, how much it will cost and how inefficient it might be.
In every country in the world, the healthcare industry is a target for a great deal of debate and argumentation. There are many conflicting pressures on the healthcare business. On the one hand, there is the pressure of social justice, which demands that all citizens be given access to the care needed to sustain life … Read more
Warren E Buffett sure knows how to toss a cat among the pigeons. True to form, in August the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway wrote an op-ed headlined “Stop coddling the super rich” for America’s leading newspaper, The New York Times. It was a full frontal attack on a tax system that favours the wealthy.Buffett’s well-argued and entirely logical proposals have become the rallying call for “wealth tax” agitators around the world.Including here in Sunny South Africa.