FF Plus submits legal opinion on NHI after insistence: Bill quite possibly unconstitutional
10 May 2023
On insistence of the FF Plus, political parties today submitted their respective legal opinions on the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill by tabling it in the parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Health.
In a vote on the matter, the DA followed the FF Plus's example and rejected the Bill. The IFP and ANC voted in support of it.
This is after the FF Plus walked out of the Portfolio Committee's meeting on 22 March this year because political parties were not afforded ample opportunity to obtain their own legal advice on the NHI Bill.
On 29 March 2023, the Committee agreed to grant parties an extension before tabling their legal opinions in the Committee on 5 April 2023. The initial date was then postponed to today.