Don’t fall for Presidency’s NHI coaxing any longer, Solidarity warns
19 August 2024
Turn your back on the presidential health compact and demand that the National Health Insurance Act (NHI) be repealed.
That is Solidarity’s recommendation to organisations that are also targeted by the government with its so-called health compact.
This compact has been postponed for the time being due to a lack of support, with the business pressure group Business Unity South Africa (Busa) and the South African Health Professionals Collaboration (SAHPC) already indicating that they are not in favour of the compact.
Solidarity believes that this compact’s goal is to raise support for the NHI, and according to Theuns du Buisson, economic researcher at the Solidarity Research Institute (SRI), this is done precisely because no one apart from the government actually still believes that the NHI is workable.