The NHI aims to address existing inequalities by redistributing resources and improving access to essential medicines for all.
Both posed not only discriminating, but self-interested questions on whether the National Health Insurance can provide essential medication for nine million South Africans who merely constitute 14.2% of the population.One needs to ask who provides critical medicines to the 54 million people who solely depend on the underfunded public health system.
It is time to stop driving a wedge between the public and private parallel service provision systems.We know that private health providers do not report on quality and cannot account for health outcomes.The Health Market Inquiry findings, in fact, suggest that private patients often get bad health care with plenty of unnecessary procedures and medicines.NHI can expand support that is already there
The so-called incapable government subsidises funding in the private sector to the tune of almost R100 billion every year. On the delivery front, millions of people are provided with necessary medicines every day in the public sector.The capacity of government to ensure everyone irrespective of socioeconomic status receives health care based on their needs was tested during Covid vaccination period.
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