"Until a week ago, you’d imagine this to be a nuts conspiracy theory, cooked up by a sect in the basement of the Institute of Race Relations." So writes FM editor Rob Rose (Editor’s Note, May 27-June 2 (https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/opinion/editors-note/2021-05-27-rob-rose-discovery-wont-accept-nationalising-medical-reserves/)) in his analysis of calls to nationalise medical aid reserves to capitalise National Health Insurance (NHI).

As a high priest of the Institute of Race Relations’ sect of property rights, I find it gratifying to see our prophecies receiving some backhanded acknowledgement...

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