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BusinessLive reports that medical scheme members are likely to lose their tax credits to help pay for the first set of benefits to be rolled out under National Health Insurance (NHI), Health Minister Aaron Motsolaedi said on Thursday.
At a briefing on the latest policy position on NHI, due to be published as a revised White Paper on Friday, Motsolaedi said the first package of benefits would target women, children and the elderly, with funds helping people who were not on medical aid. The government provided R20bn in tax credits to members of medical schemes in 2015, many of who were among the nation’s most wealthy citizens and least in need of government support, he said. Only 8.8-million people currently belong to medical schemes, out of a population of about 55.5-million. The total cost of implementing NHI priority programmes will come to R69bn over four years, less than the total cost of the tax credits provided to medical scheme members over the same period.
- Read this report by Tamar Kahn in full at BusinessLive
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