National Health Insurance is detached from reality
Health ombud Malegapuru Makgoba’s warningsMakgoba should be commended for speaking the truth to parliament’s health portfolio committee on the poor conditions in state facilities and how detached from reality the National Health Insurance proposal is.
Even in the more recent years of low economic growth, the number of employed public health personal went from 300,882 in 2018/2019 to 324,763 in 2020/2021 — an increase of 4% per annum, which well exceeds the population growth rate of about 1.5% per annum. Even more so, the collective provincial public sector budget went from R197.3bn in 2018/2019 to R234.8bn in 2020/2021 — a substantial 9.1% per annum, and more than double the official inflation rate for that period.
he answers to such questions are in fact to be found in the comments Makgoba made to the health portfolio committee — he is quoted in your article saying: “The only province that seems to have its act together is the Western Cape ... The other provinces are really in difficulties and need ... to jack up their work.”
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