A contentious provision in the National Health Insurance Bill has the potential to undermine the implementation of the scheme and delay urgent reform to the health system, according to a report by Section 27.
Health system reform efforts in South Africa appear to have stagnated. Following over a decade of discussion and debate, stakeholders are weary and do not trust each other’s motives and opinions. This stagnation is fatal. South Africa’s health system is under immense strain and its inequities are well known. Some people continue to receive insufficient care while others are over-serviced in the interests of profit. Health care workers are burning out. Uncertainty about changes that may never come is causing jitters in the middle class and impatience among those who cannot imagine a changed system leaving them worse off.
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A new report, ‘Health Reform Perspectives and Proposals’, was launched by SECTION27 and the Concentric Alliance on Monday. It recommends that stakeholders within the health sector enter into a consensus-building process to address areas of contention in health reform. A failure to do so.