The president says the government will implement it ‘in an incremental fashion’ and aim to cover the whole country by 2025
President Cyril Ramaphosa, Picture: ESA ALEXANDER / SUNDAY TIMES
NHI is the government’s policy for achieving universal health coverage, and aims to ensure everyone has care that is free at the point of delivery. Its first piece of enabling legislation, the NHI Bill, is currently being processed by parliament. He highlighted SA’s two-tiered health system, which sees about 15% of the population pay monthly premiums to belong to medical schemes that provide cover for private healthcare services, while the rest of the population is largely dependent on the state sector. State healthcare facilities are supposed to implement means-tested user fees, but many patients are not, in fact, billed.
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