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Article: NHI: a bad prescription; Young and well-off individuals will have to pay medical costs for others, writes eustace davie.(News)
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- Daily News (South Africa)
- Article date:
- June 17, 2009
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YOUNG South Afri-cans, do you know what the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) has in store for you? You are fit and healthy; old age and infirmity lie in the distant future and you don't know what to think about such things.
But you need to take a special interest in the debate about National Health Insurance and the shenanigans politicians and government officials are getting up to.
They are going to have a drastic impact on your future.
The NHI proposals are not yet out but, from pronouncements that have been made on the subject, the basics are clear.
First, it's you, the young go-getter, who'll be lumbered with the major part ...