Given South Africa’s social and economic situation, NHI will be a disaster.
In response to a question in parliament, health minister Joe Phaahla divulged that, in the past three years, the government has paid out more than
These claims relate only to government hospitals. One shudders to think how the situation might develop with the introduction of National Health Insurance , when private hospitals are semi-institutionalised. Some countries in Europe have similar schemes, but about 80% of households in those countries pay taxes.
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