Commentators have published criticisms about the alleged lack of funding details in the NHI Bill, writes Nicholas Crisp in The Star but no one questions the funding requirements for the implementation of the National Health Act. And no one questions what private medical scheme options will cost and what they will pay for next year, the year after or ever in future.
Crisp writes:
Should that mean that the Department of Health has no idea where the money will come from to pay for the same services the government pays for – but for all who live in the country?
The NHI Bill merely provides the framework (the enabling legislation) to change how all the money spent on healthcare in the country flows…..more
