An Overview of South Africa's Health Assets and the National Health Insurance Policy

The National Health Insurance (NHI) proposal represents the largest potential reorganisation of any sector of the economy in South Africa's history.

While it remains a laudable goal that there should be better quality and more readily accessible healthcare, we do not believe that the NHI proposal represents a reasonable option to achieve it or that a sufficient level of technical analysis has been performed by the Department of Health (DoH) during the policy process in fully understanding the complex dynamics of either the public or private sector.

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