‘The NHI is here – I have found my pen’

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Cyril-Ramaphosa National-Health-Insurance News

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President Cyril Ramaphosa is set to sign into law the National Health Insurance Bill. It is the biggest overhaul of health policy in SA since 1994.The purpose is to extend decent healthcare to all South Africans by pooling private and public healthcare spending into a single fund called the NHI Fund.

President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers the 2024 State of The Nation Address at Cape Town City Hall on 8 February 2024 in Cape Town, South Africa.

The DA should not make a fuss now, as it only advertises the false optics that the ANC is thinking about the poor. If the well being of the poor was anything near the ANC’s minds, the clinics would not have been neglected as they have, the Guptas wouldn’t have been allowed to strip SA dry, and the emergency services number, which worked in the days of the old regime, would still have worked.

Pleeeeze Mr Steenberg, be wise. Don’t fall into the trap. Bide your time take it to court but frame the message properly when you do. If you make the election about that, the ANC may well reclaim a lot of lost support. They left the signing until now for the explicit purpose that the DA would position itself n the eyes of the not so educated as the party along with it’s allies as those resisting more accessible health care. That was a dirty trick. Don’t fall for it.1.

 

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