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The Health Department’s Deputy Director General (DG) Nicholas Crisp says National Health Insurance is aimed at fixing the inequalities that exist in South Africa’s health system.

Image: Twitter-@GautengHealthThe Health Department’s Deputy Director General Nicholas Crisp says National Health Insurance is aimed atThe governing ANC initiated the idea of the NHI in 2007 saying it wanted to broaden access to medical treatment in a country where at least 72% of the population relies on a public system with too few doctors and dilapidated facilities.

“We have an extremely inequitable health care system in South Africa. We have a completely parallel system, where the private sector and the public sector function as if they’re in different countries and we have a huge amount of resources that we haven’t managed to harness. We want to have one system, where we will all participate, and we get the help because we need the healthcare, not because we’ve got money to pay for it, or we’ve got influence in the system.

 

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The money paid to private hospitals by the state should be used to ugrade state hospitals to fix inequality We know who has shares in those insurance companies n hospitals n we know whose campaign they funded

Fix border first ,then look at health

What health department? We don't have 1. We have a circus

FakeNews!

They can't even fix current public hospitals, until the Anc is remove NHI should not be implemented

Badla imali yokulungisa izibhedlela nasitshele ngama inequalities after

Inequalities they are perpetuating and expanding.

Fix inequalities You want us to pay for foreigners in our health system. I would rather keep paying my medical aid

Get lost, crisp

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