Discovery CEO Adrian Gore says the National Health Insurance could work in South Africa if amendments are made to the current Bill.
“The current version of the Bill states that once NHI has been fully implemented, medical schemes may only offer complementary cover to services not reimbursable by the NHI Fund,” Gore said.“However, we are of the view that the NHI is not workable without private-sector collaboration. Funding the additional healthcare spend required for NHI through tax increases on a small base is not sustainable.
“These big tax increases will only get the government to around 50% of what the NHI requires,” said Noach. “Further, even with this additional spend, total healthcare funding would still be insufficient and would result in the medical scheme population paying more tax and getting substantially less healthcare,” he added.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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