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Questions have been raised about how the National Health Insurance Bill will be financed and whether SA can afford it.

The Portfolio Committee on Health has received about 100,000 submissions on the controversial National Health Insurance Bill, but is yet to read one.At a press briefing on key items on Parliament’s agenda with the chair of chairs, Cedric Frolick, chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Health Sibongiseni Dhlomo said members of his committee were sacrificing their weekends to attend public hearings across the country. Mpumalanga is first up this weekend.

Frolick added that the National Council of Provinces would also have a public participation process on the Bill and go to other regions that the Portfolio Committee on Health hadn’t visited.

 

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