South Africa is at a crossroads. In light of government’s ongoing efforts to implement the National Health Insurance (NHI) Act, public concern is growing over its financial feasibility, economic impact, and the risk it poses to our country’s existing healthcare access.
Why the current NHI model falls short
The NHI Act establishes a single-purchaser system and prohibits medical schemes from covering any service included in the NHI benefit package. Section 33 removes the right to supplementary cover. This is not only counterintuitive to increasing access to healthcare but actually counterproductive.
Medical scheme members tend to be older and typically have higher…
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At the end of the school year and a mother asked his son if the exam questions were difficult. And he answers her saying “They weren’t bad at all,” it was the answers that gave me all the trouble.