Addressing members of parliament at the provincial legislature, acting Premier Nomusa Dube-Ncube said the National Health Insurance system would allow both the insured and the uninsured to enjoy the benefits of receiving quality health care without worrying about funds being exhausted.
“The private health care in South Africa is highly concentrated; it’s exorbitant, uncompetitive and lacks innovation. That is what the competition Commission found. They also found that general practitioners are distributed relatively unevenly across the uninsured population,” explains Dube-Ncube.
I am for NHI But: Our public health system still needs major transformation in order to deliver the quality health care that medical aid offers.
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