The NHI Act signed by President Cyril Ramaphosa last week is a threat to South Africa’s healthcare sector, showing how schizophrenic government is, forcing the private sector out of healthcare at the same time that it brings in the private sector to solve the electricity and water crises.
She says producers will compete to sell electricity into the grid, potentially reducing the cost of electricity for the first time in many years and consolidating the end of load shedding.The NCOP also passed the National Water Resources Infrastructure Agency Bill, an important part of the overall strategy to stabilise water supply in South Africa.
She said in a BLSA media statement last week that the legislation is unworkable, economically damaging and contrary to the precepts of the South African Constitution. “It establishes a single buyer model, effectively the opposite of what has been done in the electricity sector and proposes to force all other medical insurance to restrict itself to only those benefits not provided by the single fund.
“Even on its own timeline, full implementation is only going to happen after 2032/33. While it is scant assurance, I hope our healthcare professionals, as well as the many medical scheme members who depend on them will remain committed to the existing system.”
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