NHI Scheme Presents Opportunities And Risks For Private Sector

BMI View: South Africa's timescale for enacting its National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme is practical and achievable, as are their goals of improving governance, administration and funding. However, what is more unwelcome is the government's anti-commercial rhetoric and habit of politicising healthcare along racial lines. This will worry private healthcare providers as the government's plans to ease non-public healthcare prices, to move people off the state system and onto more affordable private care, could involve blanket price control measures that negatively impact on the profitability of these businesses. Nevertheless, the NHI also presents huge opportunities for private health insurance providers

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