National Health Insurance (NHI) is becoming a tool for political and factional battles, potentially rendering productive, logical debate on its future — and on the urgency of ensuring universal access to quality health services — untenable.

The events in recent weeks have pointed to the difficulty the ANC will face in retreating from its hardline position on the legislation, signed into law by President Cyril Ramaphosa on the eve of the May 29 polls. ..

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