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ANA reports that trade union Solidarity condemned the adoption of the controversial National Health Insurance (NHI) plan by the Cabinet last week and said that government clearly wanted to achieve an ideological victory even if it was at the expense of South African’s lives.
Solidarity Research Institute (SRI) senior researcher Morné Malan said in a statement that health minister Zweli Mkhize’s comments that the time for discussions, analysis, and diagnosis was over and that implementation of the NHI should go ahead was irresponsible and the NHI was heading for disaster. “I can understand why the minister would want us to stop analysing, because every economic analysis, every failed pilot project and discussion only reveal more shortcomings that would hamper the system, and are further indications that the NHI simply is not viable,” he noted. Malan went on to say that looking at the feedback from all quarters, including the Treasury, the business sector at large, medical aid schemes, the pharmaceutical industry, private hospital groups as well as organised labour, “then one cannot but reach the conclusion that a total revision or a rejection of the proposal is called for.”
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard at Independent News
Read Solidarity’s press statement at SA Labour News
Read too, DA says Cabinet’s premature approval of NHI Bill is disastrous for healthcare, at DA News (press statement)
And also, Denosa welcomes the adoption of NHI Bill by Cabinet, at Denosa News (press statement)
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