Only 40% of the parties in the GNU support the NHI. What will happen to the Act?
Shabir Moosa
The Government of National Unity (GNU) has now grown to 10 parties. But only four support the ANC-led National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme outright.Signed by President Ramaphosa just before elections, the NHI Act may now be the law, but it’s far from changing the way healthcare works in South Africa.
The health department must still write regulations and have them approved through Parliament.
But the coalition partners that have agreed to form the new government have widely different views on how to get to universal health coverage.
Here’s what experts say about how the road ahead could look…..more
