Constitutional Court fires a warning shot across NHI’s bow
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Ramaphosa is head-in-the-clouds over NHI
Despite the president’s assertions, neither the Freedom Charter nor the UN say that the ANC’s NHI is the only option to achieve universal health…
NHI is a fantasy fix for a broken system
Alex van den Heever says NHI lacks the legal, fiscal and constitutional foundations to work, while urgent health reforms have been sidelined.…
NHI circus has closed down – but no-one told the clowns
Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi is stubbornly clinging to the belief that NHI will save South Africa. Others know it’s dead in the water…
The contradictions driving the ANC’s NHI lie
Broken promises that the NHI won’t be funded by new taxes show it’s driven more by electioneering than a genuine plan to fix healthcare.…
The NHI is dead (say economists); long live the NHI (says the ANC)
If you think the ANC is going to magic National Health Insurance into existence, you may as well believe in unicorns…
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