CHRIS HATTINGH: Busting the NHI myth
Rather than fix the broken public health system, policymakers are looking to the private sector to provide more money for National Health Insurance
03 June 2021 - 05:00
National Health Insurance (NHI) is being sold as a panacea for all of SA’s health-care problems, but don’t be fooled.
Nationalising the management of all health care and putting it in the hands of the state will not solve any of the structural and systemic problems that afflict the public and private health sector...
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