The NHI is coming, says Ramaphosa
President Cyril Ramaphosa says the NHI is coming, and will bring an end to South Africa’s public and private healthcare sectors operating in parallel.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa says the NHI is coming, and will bring an end to South Africa’s public and private healthcare sectors operating in parallel.
The High Court has followed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s pause on the NHI with an order sealing the deal.
Another legal case has been launched against the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme, directly challenging the constitutionality of the NHI Act, seeking to have it declared invalid.
Chief executive officer of Profmed, Craig Comrie, says the government’s NHI plans will be bogged down by legal proceedings for the foreseeable future, leaving South Africa’s healthcare crisis to fester.
The Department of Health says, like it or not, the NHI Act is law, and there’s no space for “back door” settlements to change that.
Renowned economist Dawie Roodt says that the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme will be a disaster for taxpayers and the national fiscus.