The NHI Bill is a ‘lost opportunity’ in that it fails to address how medico-legal claims, which will arise from centralised healthcare funding be budgeted and paid for, writes medico-legal consultant Donald Dinnie.
Dinnie writes:
We now have the next (and final?) edition of the National Health Insurance Bill which, aspirationally and inspirationally, seeks to achieve universal access to quality healthcare services in the Republic of South Africa in accordance with section 27 of the Constitution…..more