ANC members of the NCOP described the passage of the Bill as "an unstoppable train" and warned that the NHI will be implemented "whether people like it or not".
After numerous years of stumbling through the development of the NHI Bill, the government has taken another step closer to having the impending disaster approved by President Cyril Ramaphosa, writes Wayne Duvenage.
The National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme is set to outshine the government's failed e-toll scheme, making that debacle look like child's play.
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