NHI Bill signed into law: Rolls-Royce system of healthcare for all?

President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the National Health Insurance Bill into law this afternoon, exactly two weeks before South Africa is set to hold the 2024 National and Provincial Elections on May 29.

“In signing this bill, we are signalling our determination to advance the constitutional right to access healthcare as articulated in Section 27 of the Constitution. The passage of the bill sets the foundation for ending a parallel inequitable health system where those without means are relegated to poor healthcare,” said Ramaphosa.

He said the NHI will ensure society does not have to bear an ‘untenable financial burden when they need medical assistance’. “The NHI will make healthcare in the country, as a whole, more affordable,” he said, referring to it as a ‘Rolls-Royce system of healthcare’.The #NHI is an opportunity to make a break with the inequality and inefficiency that has long characterised our approach to the health of the South African people.~ President @CyrilRamaphosa… pic.twitter.com/uEHkVBUIZQSeveral organisations and political parties have opposed the bill.

Dirk Hermann, the CEO of Solidarity, wrote to the president last night, informing him that Solidarity will take legal action within an hour of the signing ceremony.

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