LETTER: Pause the NHI, fix the public health sector first
02 September 2019 - 19:50
The frenzied reactions to health minister Zweli Mkhize’s new National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill demonstrates that healthcare is an emotive subject for South Africans, with diverse ideologies and often fiercely opposing principles put forward by various stakeholders.
But it also shows one remarkably consistent facet common to all participants: the desire that every citizen should have access to quality healthcare that does not impose financial hardship...
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