The NHI is definitely NOT about access to quality healthcare for all, otherwise, we would have fixed our existing healthcare services.
CEO of Business Leadership South Africa , Busi Mavuso, says that government seems to be ignoring all the red flags around the National Health Insurance , and has gone as far as calling the plan “utterly unworkable”.the BLSA believes that people have almost given up arguing against it as it has become clear government is ignoring all comments from industry experts as they plough forth with their ‘we know best’ attitude.
According to Mavuso, the NHI has some seriously negative consequences on top of being overly ambitious and unclear. According to Mavuso, it appears that government is not really focussing on how it will work, but rather on the ‘optics’. In other words, all show and no substance. This could then prove to be the most ridiculous election campaigning trick ever.
Ultimately, the health system will be forced to ‘appear’ to be implementing it, setting up fatcat boards and committees, but with existing facilities in a terrible state, this will all just be grandstanding.
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