South Africa: Covid-19 and the Case Against a State-Run National Health Insurance

[Daily Maverick] Government has no legal means to access the R200-billion that is privately funded by medical scheme members, so the only option is to legislate a monopoly for itself and increase the NHI budget beyond the existing public sector budget by raising dedicated NHI taxes or levies. In our post-Covid economic meltdown, that is about as likely to happen as Donald Trump apologising for being misogynistic.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Source Type: news