The president says the government will implement it ‘in an incremental fashion’ and aim to cover the whole country by 2025
President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged South Africans to rally behind the government’s drive for National Health Insurance , saying it is “unfair and unjust” that access to decent healthcare still hinges on a person’s ability to pay.
“It is one of the greatest travesties of our time that access to decent and quality healthcare services is determined by one’s ability to pay,” the president said in his weekly newsletter, arguing that NHI was as much an economic issue as a fight for social justice. “The introduction of NHI will be among the most far-reaching acts of social transformation this country has experienced since 1994. We have enough resources in this country to enable every man, woman and child to receive appropriate, standardised, quality healthcare,” said Ramaphosa.
The 2025 deadline was set in the government’s policy papers on NHI, but critics have said it is an unrealistically ambitious target for full implementation and Treasury officials have previously indicated that a more gradual approach is likely.
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