The simple logic outlined by Ockert Fourie is irrefutably correct (“There’s another way to fix the health sector (../bd/opinion/letters/2019-08-27-letter-theres-another-way-to-fix-the-health-sector/)”, August 27).

Privatise the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) system from the outset by empowering a consortium of private health-care companies to take control of the mismanaged and dysfunctional public hospitals using the current health-care budget.  ..

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