PARLIAMENT - The long-awaited National Health Insurance Bill sets out to contain the cost of comprehensive public health care by prioritising primary and preventative health care and introducing a "gatekeeping" mechanism on referrals to specialist care.
It states that the NHI Fund and its executive authority will in the near future begin to bid for funds from the national budget but also moots new taxation options as a source of revenue, including a surcharge on income tax or a "small payroll tax". "This can best be considered with reference to the nature of the proposed system and the checks and balances that will be put in place to limit unnecessary expenditure increases for supply-side as well as demand-side management."
Here we go with another SOE to loot !!! NHI is going to be a fiasco. The anc admits Eskom is too large an SOE Eskom must be split up. The NHI is going to be even bigger so how are the anc going to manage it ?
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