Statement on the passing of the National Health Insurance Bill – towards quality healthcare for all:
13 June 2023
The passing of the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill must mark the development of a decisive epoch, an epoch of an irreversible rupture with the present unequal two-tiered healthcare regime.
The irrational two-tiered healthcare regime has persisted hand-in-hand with income and wealth inequalities, which have worsened with every crisis of the exploitative capitalist system.
The NHI legislation must focus on a major redistribution of health-care resources to benefit all, as opposed to a tiny minority.
Such redistribution requires a system-wide structural transformation approach.