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Private sector healthcare schemes will still have a role to play when the government implements the National Health Insurance because the treasury cannot finance the system on its own.
BUSINESS

Treasury reassures private sector over National Health Insurance fears

The private healthcare sector and medical aid schemes have warned that, if they are excluded, it would damage the entire system

  • Aarti Bhana
4 min read
Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s president, shows the signed bill for National Health Insurance signed into law in Pretoria, South Africa, on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. (Leon Sadiki/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
PUBLIC VS PRIVATE HEALTHCARE

The National Health Insurance means a higher tax burden for South Africans

If value-added tax were to be used to fund the insurance, it would have to rise from 15% to 21.5%

  • Anathi Madubela
5 min read
President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the NHI Bill into law on Wednesday. (@Presidency_ZA/X)
HEALTH EQUITY IN SOUTH AFRICA

‘Fear not, it will be phased in,’ Ramaphosa says of National Health Insurance

In his speech before signing the controversial bill into law, the president still did not address where the billions needed for the scheme will come from This content is…

  • Des Erasmus
1 min read