Ramaphosa signed NHI into law last week in a blatant election move. Immediately he and ANC said, in response to criticism and concerns, it would be incremental and could be changed. People prefer paying extortionate private healthcare fees rather than resist. But the problem is that in a supposed free market people are held to ransom by healthcare providers and don't have a choice. NHI will make things far, far worse, and the ANC will mess things up and steal as they always do (assuming they're still in power if and when it begins). But private healthcare (PH) partly has themselves to blame for this situation. And they've brought the problem down on all of us with heavy handed state intervention. NHI started with complaints of the costs of PH and that it was exclusionary - it absorbed a huge chunk of national health expenditure for a small percentage of the population. Statements now by NHI critics that SA's out-of-pocket health costs are among the lowest - 12th lowes...