President Cyril Ramaphosa may as well have signed the death warrant of healthcare in South Africa when he signed the NHI Bill into law, and provided the ANC with a licence to loot on a scale that makes their thievery at Eskom look like shoplifting, writesSome years ago, a bedridden friend went to Paarl District Hospital in the DA-run Western Cape for double hip replacement surgery. She was deeply impressed by the hospital's cleanliness, professionalism and"five-star service".
The DA is committed to realising the constitutional right to quality healthcare for everyone in South Africa. We have a workable plan to realise this vision, the essence of which is to improve the quality of public healthcare while expanding access to private healthcare. This is the quickest, most affordable route to achieving universal coverage.By contrast, the ANC's National Health Insurance plan will destroy the country's healthcare sector and any prospects for fixing it.
In response, the DA will file a legal challenge and fight this treacherous legislation all the way to the Constitutional Court, using every means at our disposal. By nationalising healthcare, the NHI will destroy South Africa's private healthcare system and thereby sabotage any chance of fixing our public health system. Doctors and nurses will flee our shores as the sector collapses and their job prospects evaporate. Just this week, nine healthcare associations, representing 25 000 healthcare professionals, pronounced NHI"unworkable".
In direct contrast to the NHI, the DA's approach to achieving universal access is to depoliticise and decentralise control over the health system, with the aim of improving the quality of public healthcare while expanding access to private healthcare.The time for taking a backseat is over. The road to the 2024 election requires effort from all of us. Start by keeping informed.
We will improve the quality of public health infrastructure by ensuring all capital expenditure is directly financed and controlled by facility administrators rather than by the public works department. All revenues raised by hospitals, outside of budgeted allocations, will be retained and managed by the relevant hospital and deployed in accordance with their needs.
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