Influential London-based think tank Chatham House says that SA's move to a National Health Insurance is long overdue and that the country needs to catch up with the global movement towards universal health coverage.
Robert Yates, executive director of the Centre for Universal Health at Chatham House, which advises governments on universal health coverage , visited SA this week. Yates says that the SA's dual health system – an expensive private health sector for a small portion of the population and an under-funded public system for the majority – is similar to that in the US, where healthcare has become"monumentally expensive". Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.