TOM EATON | A national health scheme is great, as long as it’s not run by the ANC

A world in which the poor might have their suffering alleviated while the ANC simply doesn’t exist

07 December 2023 - 21:42

The ANC has reportedly described the National Health Insurance scheme as an “unstoppable train”. Of course, we can’t blame the ANC for not knowing how trains work — making machines go is hard — but for the sake of clarity, I would like to remind our leaders that an unstoppable train is a train whose brakes have failed and which is about to transform into a trainwreck...

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