“I think this should be tested in court. To say to people you can only have a service that is accepted by the state, from the person who the state assigns to you, and for the amount that the state allows you to pay, is completely unacceptable. It really takes away people's rights,” she said.
Zille physically delivered the SA Institute of Race Relations' submission on the NHI Bill to parliament on Wednesday. The institute's submission has been endorsed by just over 40,000 people whose signatures - mostly collected online - were attached. Speaking to TimesLIVE afterwards, the former DA leader said the problem with NHI was that it assumed the current government and the state had the ability to introduce a system which would force everybody to be part of a huge bureaucratic system in which the state would decide who could get what treatment, when and from which doctors.
“It takes away choice entirely ... and it supposes that we have the money and the ability to run a state-driven national health insurance for everybody. “We have seen that the state is not able to run the public health system that currently exists. There is only one province where public hospitals are functional in the main, and that is the Western Cape. In some provinces like the North West, public health has just about ground to a complete standstill,” she said.
Anything to stay relevant.....
Does slaves have rights ? Or must they just obey or be punished if they don't ?
It will be much much worse than Eskom...
NHI will cost 250 Billion Rand per year. This is enough to make a tax payer grinch.
Why present hospitals are not running smoothly as they used to..poor management overcrowded shortage of medicines & other essentials shortage of staff dirty inside & outside lack of security..what will change with NHI
Which ppl. The poor masses have no rights
It will help the poor black person hence some people with havard application forms dont want it.
How so? Maybe it takes away 'white people's right' to thinking private medical care is exclusively meant for them. Shame.
The aunty at the racist institute of race whatnot - I think they took the race in the name top serious🤦🏽♂️
She is the best person to lead our country now.
NHI is a looming disaster waiting to make LandFall.. Doomed to failure, even before inception... MYANC cadres GovernmentZA HealthZA aren't capable enough of dealing with this massive NHI rollout..
It's not tea its alcohol in there
Common sense right there.
Private health funders should start a voucher allocation system anyway? Use some profits to kickstart system that’s inclusive & will stimulate the pvt hospital industry, make the whole system more competitive, drive prices down and make it harder to force NHI down our throats.
Go have intercourse with yourself.