The FW de Klerk Foundation submitted formal comments on the Department of Health’s Proposed Governance Regulations for the National Health Insurance Fund and called for the Regulations to be withdrawn as the Minister has acted unlawfully by proposing them before consulting the NHI Fund.
Shortly after 15h00 today, 15 May 2024, President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the National Health Insurance Bill (now Act) into law. In what some may see as a last attempt to gain goodwill for the ANC, he assented to the highly controversial law just 14 days shy of the national election.
As the second in a series of articles on the National Health Insurance Bill, this article will examine other possible solutions to fulfilling the right to access healthcare in South Africa.
The first in a series of articles on the National Health Insurance Bill, FW de Klerk Foundation Interns Shaun Kinnes and Siyakudumisa Zcina outline the seeming intentions of the NHI and its problems.
In commemoration of World Health Day, the FW de Klerk Foundation’s Constitutional Programmes team considers the National Health Insurance Bill and the promises for access to health care outlined in the Constitution.
In the midst of a healthcare crisis, South Africa faces a perplexing paradox – a surplus of over 800 unemployed doctors juxtaposed with escalating medical negligence claims in state hospitals. The situation underscores the constitutional implications of the National Health Insurance (“NHI”) Bill, which, far from being a solution, appears to exacerbate the challenges at hand.
On 15 September, the FW de Klerk Foundation made a written submission to the National Council of Provinces on the National Health Insurance Bill. The Foundation analysed key failures of the NHI Bill with specific reference to the constitutional principle of the Rule of Law and rationality, the feasibility of the proposed system and governance concerns, coupled with the unfettered power of the Minister of Health (“the Minister”).
On Tuesday 13 June 2023, the first house of Parliament, the National Assembly, passed the controversial National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill that will do nothing more than ensure all South Africans receive an equal share of a failed public health care system.
