Regardless of what may happen with embattled health minister Zweli Mkhize — a Special Investigating Unit (SIU) probe into the irregular awarding of a R150m Covid-19 communications tender is in play — the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) is a doomed, flawed concept.
No matter which minister, panel of bureaucrats, or political party happens to be in charge if the NHI ever becomes a reality, the fundamental problem with the idea is the assumption that the management of all health care should be in the hands of the state...
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