ROB ROSE: The holes in Phaahla’s NHI straw man
If you don’t support this NHI, you clearly want the poor to suffer, say our politicians. This, experts say, is basically a lie
06 July 2023 - 05:03
Health minister Joe Phaahla is proving as slippery as his predecessor, as adept at creating a straw man as Zweli Mkhize ever was.
It’s no secret that there’s nobody as sanctimonious as a politician shaking his fist against a fake controversy. But even so, it seems especially cynical for Phaahla to try to frame criticism of National Health Insurance (NHI) as stemming from people who simply don’t want everyone to have quality health care...
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