Health Minister, Zweli Mkhize has attempted to allay fears that National Health Insurance (NHI) will require extra funding at the implementation phase.
Some fear this will impact South Africa’s already overstretched tax base but Mkhize says a combination of public and private funding should be enough during the initial phase.
Among those who are critical of the NHI is the chair of Social Security at Wits School of Governance, Professor Alex van den Heever.
Van den Heever insisted the NHI will not work.
“The first issue is whether or not you should have another state owned-entity with the Minister appointing everybody into every part of the structure,” he said.
Van den Heever stated two bodies are dependent on ministerial appointments.
“The key areas of corruption in our system at the moment are appointment of staff. All of our SOEs have that framework and that’s why they’ve all failed and been captured… Why would this fund be different?”
The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa and the South Africa Medical Association are among those supporting the NHI.
“We welcome the long-awaited health bill because we think it is long overdue, it talks to what nurses are doing on a daily basis. It talks about engineering of primary health care,” said Denosa’s Kwena Manamela.
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Source: eNCA
