President Cyril Ramaphosa says the multi-billion-rand NHI Fund won’t fall to government corruption.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has said that the widespread corruption within government during the Covid-19 pandemic served as a learning curve, assuring that the National Health Insurance would not face the same fate.
The Covid-19 emergency measures in South Africa, including a R500-billion relief package, emergency social grants, and personal-protective equipment tenders were gravely exploited by corrupt individuals and businesses. Ramaphosa said that he was “the first to concede that when it came to… personal protection equipment, we made a mistake. We allowed everyone in the country to be a provider,” which led to a feeding frenzy from the public trough.The new laws allow the government to establish a multi-billion rand fund that will become the sole purchaser of healthcare services in South Africa and leaves it in the hands of the government, with centralised power sitting with the Minister of Health.
However, the government has a poor track record of enforcing these kinds of laws, and has an even worse track record in running state companies and multi-billion-rand funds.Meanwhile, the Road Accident Fund—which manages a much smaller pool of money than is envisioned for the NHI—is a mess.
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