The civil rights organisation AfriForum strongly condemns parliament\u2019s decision to accept the new bill on National Health Insurance (NHI). The organisation has also already assembled a team of the country\u2019s top legal experts, economists, and medical experts to oppose the legislation on all possible levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to AfriForum, NHI is just one more of the castles in the sky that the ANC government has built with the aim of campaigning for votes in light of next year\u2019s national election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The current public health system is succumbing to its ANC inflicted wounds, yet government now wants to force all citizens to become even more dependent on the state with their culture of mismanagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The result will be that medical practitioners leave the country, patients die, and cadres are further enriched through corrupt medical contracts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPeople thought load shedding was bad, but this policy will lead to health care shedding,\u201d says Jacques Broodryk, spokesperson for AfriForum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBesides, there is no way the already overburdened taxpayer is going to be able to finance the state\u2019s new pipe dream. Do you think for one moment that the members of parliament who passed the legislation use government hospitals when they are sick? No, they use top private hospitals or even travel abroad for medical treatment,\u201d concludes Broodryk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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