The health scheme is scheduled to be functioning by 2025 but the precise costs are still not known.
Pressing financial challenges that have befuddled previous ministers include health insurance, free education and the nuclear deal with Russia.
SA is working towards reducing the high cost of private healthcare and ensuring public healthcare is of quality. But it won’t happen overnight.
A centre employing only men has opened in Khayelitsha to address the needs of males uneasy about being seen at mixed-gender facilities.
Doctors say Dihlabeng hospital doesn’t have the medicine and staff to help patients.
The Constitution doesn’t allow Motsoaledi to give health MECs direct instructions, but his "political influence" would help a great deal.
President Jacob Zuma has reiterated government’s commitment to get the National Health Service into operation – despite drawing criticism in the past.
The Rural Health Advocacy Project says the budget was "disappointing" as it does not make provision for improvements in healthcare service delivery.
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has left serious questions about the National Health Insurance scheme unanswered, writes Chris Archer.
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi describes Dr Chris Archer’s criticism of the national health insurance as ignorant at best.
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/ 6 February 2014
Minister, please sit down with the private health sector before the NHI has us paying more but getting less, writes Dr Chris Archer.
Rwanda, too, has succeeded in doing what this country has only been talking about for 18 years..
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/ 5 December 2013
Fixing healthcare needs a multidisciplinary approach, not just a medical focus.
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/ 9 September 2013
Health editor Mia Malan talks about Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi’s decision to use public hospitals and the NHI.
An effective healthcare system will free up donor money for more desperate countries.
NHI details are not clear but it is certain that the priveged few will have to do with less.
Experts say the National Health Insurance scheme could benefit rich and poor, with positive broader outcomes.
Its health system is comparable to the best in the world, achieved at a fraction of the cost of others.
Healthcare that is accessible to all is the foundation on which an equitable and efficient system must be built.
Mia Malan reports on the challenges of involving medical schemes in the administration of the National Health Insurance scheme.
GPs with their own practices are interested in working for the NHI scheme – with caveats.
In the first of a two-part series about the NHI, Mia Malan reports on state plans to change the rigid reimbursement formula for private doctors.
What, if anything, does the private healthcare sector have to offer the rural poor?
An industry-wide probe into private healthcare seems likely, but stakeholders fear a witch hunt.
The establishment of a health promotion body in SA would save lives – and billions of rands.
Rural areas have always been at the bottom of the list when it comes to healthcare and expenditure.
Private doctors have accused the health minister and the Health Professions Council of South Africa of a having a "hidden agenda"
As the ANC goes to its elective conference in Mangaung, we look at the resolutions made at the 2007 Polokwane conference. What have they achieved?
Medical practitioners are pessimistic about healthcare in South Africa, says new study.
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has been on a long-overdue mission to transform SA’s health system since he took office more than three years ago.
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has decried the replacement of the healthcare system in Gauteng, Limpopo and the Eastern Cape with "tender-care".
The National Health Insurance could be vital in comprehensively improving women’s health, but only if it is designed to do so from the outset.