[for 20% of the population]. Now, if we had the full [estimated] R550bn for 60-million people, we have just over R9,100 per capita to look after health care. That would almost double the amount of resources available for people in the public sector and it would reduce, dramatically, the amount per capita for those in the private sector.
What happens under an NHI is that funds, over time, become available to purchase services elsewhere. That sounds great in theory, but we often see provincial health departments not using their full budgets, because they don’t have the administrative capacity to do so. What systems will the NHI have that provincial health departments don’t have? . The incentive is now on the management and the staff at that hospital, if they want to keep their jobs, to deliver a service and produce the outcomes that are worth paying for.
HealthZA Bhekisisa_MG Oh please. Surely even Bhekisisa can't believe this after what we've seen in this country over the last 20 years. We are far from naive
HealthZA Bhekisisa_MG Not even Trevor Noah could script something that funny.