Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi will undertake a “massive roadshow” on the National Health Insurance in efforts, he says, to meet all stakeholders and understand their concerns, and find out what kind of universal health coverage people would find acceptable.
But at the same time, implementing will begin of Section 57 of the NHI Act, which deals with transitional mechanisms the NHI will require, reports News24.
“We are going to implement Section 57 but simultaneously we are intending to run massive roadshows and workshops to meet all the relevant stakeholders and hear their concerns. (Despite) the war raging about NHI, you will never hear anyone say they are against universal health coverage (UHC). They all say they accept UHC, but then there is a big but, and they will say they don’t support it in the form (of the NHI Act). So, our job is to find out in what form they want it. What is it that if it were on the table, they will go for it?”
The concession follows an undertaking by President Cyril Ramaphosa to his government of national unity (GNU) partners to review the areas of disagreement on the NHI, to find consensus. ….more
