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<\/a>Sakeliga warned that the NHI’s outrageous framing attempts to anchor negotiations outside any reasonable window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It highlighted many problems with the NHI Act, which include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- There is no money for it<\/strong> – At an estimated R1 trillion per year, the NHI is economically unrealistic and arguably impossible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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- Non-cooperation within healthcare<\/strong> – The NHI is unpopular among healthcare companies, doctors, and patients. This alone would render it defunct.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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- Litigation<\/strong> – The NHI Act is legally challengeable on numerous grounds, and several parties are mounting or preparing concerted and complementary litigation from several angles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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- Time <\/strong>– The NHI is not yet in effect, and implementation will likely be very slow, highly inefficient, and face political friction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Sakeliga said that if the NHI Act was implemented, many professionals would exit healthcare, retire early, or emigrate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fewer talented young people will pursue medical careers, and critical staffing shortages will begin to create long waiting lists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The result will be a dramatic fall in healthcare quality and a chronically overburdened healthcare system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another problem is that the state will control citizens\u2019 healthcare, and everyone will become an applicant in a state system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Private medical aids and insurers would largely disappear, leaving the state to control what healthcare people access and when.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To fund the system, the state will have to significantly increase taxes and put an additional burden on the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sakeliga warned that the state is intent on eliminating healthcare independence, choice, and competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe NHI threatens to create another Eskom-like monopoly where health-shedding becomes a permanent feature,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe National Health Insurance Act (NHI) is a disastrous proposal and must be opposed until it is undone or rendered practically impotent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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- Time <\/strong>– The NHI is not yet in effect, and implementation will likely be very slow, highly inefficient, and face political friction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Litigation<\/strong> – The NHI Act is legally challengeable on numerous grounds, and several parties are mounting or preparing concerted and complementary litigation from several angles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Non-cooperation within healthcare<\/strong> – The NHI is unpopular among healthcare companies, doctors, and patients. This alone would render it defunct.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n