Malema’s concerns about the NHI bill: EFF leader Julius Malema has shared his concerns about the controversial National Health Insurance Bill, saying most beneficiaries do not have access to health facilities close to them.
“My biggest concern with the NHI is you have to go to a health facility that is close to you to be a beneficiary of such a policy but we know most people have no such facilities next to them, and if they are they are not in a better condition,” he said.
“There is a political will. We have passed the first lake. It may not be as perfect as we want it to be but once you pass the first lake, we will find the money, through the state, to finance this important policy that will address primary healthcare,” he said. In a statement last week, the EFF called the bill “a catastrophic development in the midst of the ongoing collapse of the public health sector”.
“On countless occasions, the EFF has highlighted problematic clauses within the bill and its fundamental position on the developing of a national funding pool. This is precisely because the health system of our country does not need a National Student Financial Aid SchemeHe said the system proposed by the NHI bill was unsustainable, as the country had witnessed before with many programmes of the ANC government that “ease the corrupt desires of politicians and the private sector”.
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