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The ANC’s National Health Plan is back in the news after the party’s spokesman said the scheme would be implemented with “prudence”.

With the announcement, without offering new details, the ANC once again raised the smoke clouds, doctors who are busy packing them to leave the country.

The ultimate cost, when the plan is fully operational, could amount to as much as R400 billion a year, which the planners say will only result in a “small increase” in income tax for individuals.

Experts say the ANC has come up with an idea that will not work as long as hospitals and health clinics are in the current chaotic state, unemployment is still at 30%, and the country’s expertise in managing the comprehensive service, still missing.

The promise that the Plan will be implemented gradually is only a root for taxpayers, and when failures take its toll, reversal is not possible.

According to President Cyril Ramaphosa, it is clear that the country’s health care is in crisis and needs rehabilitation.

More than 75% of state hospitals budget goes for salaries that are severely affected by patients who are not receiving proper treatment due to a money shortage.

According to Ramaphosa, the National Health Insurance Act will soon be tabled, which will provide free health care to all regardless of where they call for medical care.

Experts point out that Zuma’s “free education” has plunged the country’s universities into chaos, and now its successor comes and wants to get the country’s total health care messed up.

The result of the policy will lead to chaos in private hospitals and may finally break the country’s economy.

The original article can be read in Afrikaans on Die Vryburger
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