budget 2020
HEALTH: Castles in the air get short shrift
The Treasury is not bothering to waste much money on the National Health Insurance ‘vanity project’
27 February 2020 - 11:00
The scepticism (contempt, actually) with which the Treasury regards the health department’s National Health Insurance plan is evident in how little has been allocated to it — about 1% of the budget — and the decision to make the NHI bear the lion’s share of spending cuts.
The total health budget is R229.7bn, of which 62.5%, or R145bn, will go to salaries...
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