26 Jun 2024
National Health Insurance Overview – Concept, implementation & implications
Philosophically, Universal health care is a good thing for the citizens of South Africa and access to healthcare services is a basic human right as defined in the constitution, but the NHI Act in its current form has faced significant resistance.
There are obvious challenges from a human and financial capital standpoint, as well as questions over the capacity of the state to deliver on such a complicated system, something which has proven challenging globally.