DA says it can improve healthcare system faster and cheaper than the government can
24 July 2019 - 16:46
The DA has relaunched its alternative to the government’s National Health Insurance (NHI) plan that it first flighted in 2016, saying it can achieve universal health coverage in half the time and at a fraction of the cost.
The government has previously said NHI would cost R256bn in 2010 prices by 2025-26, and that it would face a funding shortfall of R27bn-R108bn by this stage. These figures are contained in the white paper on NHI that it published in 2017, and are expected to be updated in a paper being finalised by the Treasury...
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