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Maroela Media reports that President Cyril Ramaphosa has officially given notice that he will oppose Solidarity’s court application against the National Health Insurance (NHI) Act. A similar notice of opposition has also been received from the Minister of Health.
“The court battle is now fully underway,” Anton van der Bijl, the trade union’s Deputy Chief Executive: Legal Matters, indicated on Tuesday. On 24 May, Solidarity served its court papers on the government. Solidarity and numerous political parties and pressure groups believe the NHI to be unconstitutional as well as being unworkable and unaffordable. “Solidarity will challenge the NHI all the way to the highest court because the NHI is totally irrational. It deprives healthcare workers as well as healthcare users of choice,” Van der Bijl claimed. He went on to argue: “The contradiction embodied in the idea of an NHI is the fact that it would lead to less access to quality healthcare in South Africa and not to more access to it as the government professes it to be the case.“
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard in Afrikaans by Tania Heyes at Maroela Media
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