Ramaphosa signs NHI Bill amid skepticism from experts, foreseeing funding challenges, legal battles, and healthcare implications.
into law today, medical healthcare professionals – private and public – want to know where the money will come from. Economist Dawie Roodt said it wouldn’t happen.
IRR chief executive John Endres said the NHI concept was badly flawed and posed a grave threat to South Africa’s public finances and economy. “We sincerely believe the unfortunate consequence is that this version will hamper, rather than promote, access to quality health care for citizens in our country,” he said.
“At a high level, it is our view that there is insufficient evidence of a sustainable financial model to make the scheme viable that, in turn, raises a concern of the scheme being a significant threat to the national fiscus.
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