ActionSA Urges President Ramaphosa to Not Sign NHI Into Law To Avoid State Capture 2.0
Herman Mashaba
ActionSA President
ActionSA has written President Cyril Ramaphosa to not sign the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill, approved by Parliament this past week, into law in order for South Africa to avoid a second phase of state capture occurring in South Africa.
While the NHI is well-intentioned to address healthcare inequality in South Africa, the proposal is ill-conceived as it will open up healthcare for grand scale corruption as we have seen during the Covid-19 pandemic when billions were lost through PPE and related corruption. We must never forget the lives of whistle-blowers such as Babita Deokaran lost for addressing this corruption.
The state has consistently proven unable to manage money or complex systems, as we have seen at Eskom, Transnet And SASSA, and the creation of another healthcare behemoth will therefore do little to address healthcare but instead open up the industry to state capture and abuse. In South Africa, our problem is often not funding but the money lost through corruption and mismanagement.
In line with our healthcare policy adopted at our inaugural policy conference in September, ActionSA believes that the state should rather focus its attention on improving the current performance of our healthcare institutions. Once elected into government, we will reform the Health Department by prioritizing frontline healthcare by training additional doctors and nurses and eliminating corruption in public hospitals.
To improve access to affordable comprehensive medical insurance, we will review the private healthcare insurance industry, expand minimum prescribed benefits for private healthcare users and implement regulations to prevent over-charging.
ActionSA will also require Ministers and Parliamentarians to only use public healthcare so that they understand the impact of poor-quality public healthcare.
ActionSA is a party committed to providing safe and accessible healthcare to all South Africans and will work tirelessly to achieve that goal. For too long South Africans have been let down by the ruling party which has allowed for the decay in our public healthcare systems, and ActionSA is committed to turning the decay around.
ActionSA Urges President Ramaphosa to Not Sign NHI Into Law To Avoid State Capture 2.0
ActionSA has written President Cyril Ramaphosa to not sign the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill, approved by Parliament this past week, into law in order for South Africa to avoid a second phase of state capture occurring in South Africa.
While the NHI is well-intentioned to address healthcare inequality in South Africa, the proposal is ill-conceived as it will open up healthcare for grand scale corruption as we have seen during the Covid-19 pandemic when billions were lost through PPE and related corruption. We must never forget the lives of whistle-blowers such as Babita Deokaran lost for addressing this corruption.
The state has consistently proven unable to manage money or complex systems, as we have seen at Eskom, Transnet And SASSA, and the creation of another healthcare behemoth will therefore do little to address healthcare but instead open up the industry to state capture and abuse. In South Africa, our problem is often not funding but the money lost through corruption and mismanagement.
In line with our healthcare policy adopted at our inaugural policy conference in September, ActionSA believes that the state should rather focus its attention on improving the current performance of our healthcare institutions. Once elected into government, we will reform the Health Department by prioritizing frontline healthcare by training additional doctors and nurses and eliminating corruption in public hospitals.
To improve access to affordable comprehensive medical insurance, we will review the private healthcare insurance industry, expand minimum prescribed benefits for private healthcare users and implement regulations to prevent over-charging.
ActionSA will also require Ministers and Parliamentarians to only use public healthcare so that they understand the impact of poor-quality public healthcare.
ActionSA is a party committed to providing safe and accessible healthcare to all South Africans and will work tirelessly to achieve that goal. For too long South Africans have been let down by the ruling party which has allowed for the decay in our public healthcare systems, and ActionSA is committed to turning the decay around.