Destination: Soviet Africa
Follow the logic here:
The government will table draft legislation intended to regulate the private health sector, including private hospitals, within two months, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Wednesday.
“It is clear that we cannot sustain unregulated private health care service delivery in this country and at the same time regulate the medical schemes industry,” she told the National Assembly.
“We must therefore regulate the providers and the industry as a whole.”
Of course, once the industry as a whole is regulated, they’ll find that they cannot regulate the health industry and sustain unregulated medical supplies, cleaning services, labour, construction, equipment manufacturing or import… in fact, they cannot sustain unregulated anything.
All aboard? Next stop, central planning. Funeral services will be held in the dining car once a day and twice on Sundays.
It appears that a prerequisite for participation in drafting of legislation should be that the relevant minister suffers from an acute delusional psychosis.
“[..] We cannot sustain unregulated private health care […]”
Ms. Tshabalala-Msimang, private healthcare is ‘sustaining’ itself just fine at the moment, on what’s left of our share of our own money.
‘Your’ share of our money is already lying in the fisc, and your ministry is free to plan the delivery of whatsoever services, however regulated, ‘sustained’ by such monies in the budget.
Who are these people kidding other than themselves, but that is after all, delusional behavior. A statement making it clear that “we” cannot tolerate unregulated service delivery would be more to the point, regardless of who is paying for it.
It appears that our income or profit after tax is seen as state property.