President Cyril Ramaphosa’s legal team has attacked the Board of Healthcare Funders’ (BHF) challenge to the National Health Insurance (NHI) Act on technical grounds, arguing that the medical scheme industry association took its fight to the wrong court.
Business Day reports that the NHI Act is up against three legal challenges, brought separately by Solidarity, the BHF and the SA Private Practitioners Forum (SAPPF).
The BHF, representing 40 medical schemes covering 4.5m beneficiaries, or half the market, launched its challenge in May, asking the High Court to review and set aside the President’s decision to sign the Act into law, and to declare it has no legal force. ….more