South Africa's Medical Association has petitioned MPs to revise the NHI bill. Read more:
SA’s biggest doctor organisation has submitted a petition to the National Council of Provinces urging MPs to revise the National Health Insurance Bill.
The bill was passed by the National Assembly in June and proposes sweeping reforms to the healthcare sector aimed at achieving universal health coverage. Critics say the bill’s provisions, which include scrapping medical schemes and creating a central fund that will pay for all health services, are unworkable and risk making things worse for citizens...
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