South Africa’s efforts to reform its health system through a controversial national insurance plan may have been boosted by Covid-19. Picture: BLOOMBERG
“We did bang heads a lot in the beginning trying to find our way between different people’s responsibilities,” Crisp, 62, said in an interview from his office in Pretoria. “The bottom line was we needed to find a way to work together.” Under the NHI, the government intends to procure services from private hospitals and doctors at rates to be determined by the state. It also wants more accountability, transparency and tighter regulation of the non-state industry that’s emblematic of SA’s status as the world’s most unequal nation.
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