NHI heading to court – with many more legal challenges to come

Trade union Solidarity has responded to passing the National Healthcare Insurance bill in parliament by announcing its plans to take the government to court.the controversial bill, despite many critics – including business leaders, economists, and Parliament’s legal advisors – arguing that the plan is unsustainable and fraught with legal hurdles.

“We realised from the outset that the NHI would probably be tested in court. The government’s plans to capture healthcare are unaffordable and unimplementable. It will lead to a mass exodus of health practitioners from the country,” Solidarity Chief Executive Dr Dirk Hermann said. “The government has already failed with the public healthcare system, and it now wants to fail on an even bigger scale,” Hermann said.

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