LETTER: Reality more healthy than ideology
Running the NHI will require integrity, expertise and honesty
Ismail Lagardien’s most recent column illustrates how difficult it is to condemn ideological bias without exposing one’s own prejudice (“Ideology blinding some to merits of NHI (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/columnists/2019-08-21-ismail-lagardien-ideology-is-blinding-some-to-the-merits-of-nhi/)”, August 21). While knocking free-market views as extinct, he propagates another ideology many believe has been discredited through bitter experiment.
He mentions folk who discredit the National Health Service in the UK but who nevertheless make use of it. Such people are not necessarily talking rubbish — they are more likely proving that costly socialistic schemes can be abused by proponents and opponents alike...
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