LETTER: Competence is the issue
Much of the criticism of the National Health Insurance and the nuclear proposals has focused on costs, but managerial ineptitude has been overlooked
15 August 2019 - 05:00
Criticism of the nuclear energy and National Health Insurance (NHI) projects has tended to focus on their enormous cost, which the country could not afford even without the current financial melt-down.
The facts as published by Business Day, that the “mere uncertainty” surrounding the NHI idea has knocked medical companies and the currency, underlines the economic stupidity of the process that is being followed (NHI Uncertainty Wipes R14bn off Health-care Firms’ Values (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/companies/healthcare/2019-08-13-nhi-uncertainty-wipes-r14bn-off-healthcare-firms-values/), August 13)..
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