Explain & Verify | Issues around the NHI - 16 May 2023
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- Health Minister Dr Joe Paahla says the government is prepared to deal with any litigation against the National Health Insurance Act.
The DA says it's ready to approach the Constitutional Court to challenge the legislation. President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the NHI Bill into law yesterday.
Let's Explain and Verify certain issues around the NHI with Samkele Maseko.
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Having SABC analyse basic data is like watching a grade 1 do algebra...
Why not leave other people's money alone? Let the government sort out the public health care first and prove that they manage NHI.
The only reason why the private health care sector is world class is because the ANC has not yet put dirty claws in the money pool
Why not improve the public health care but push their burden to private sector? Have you seen the conditions of public hospitals? They have detoriorated. Why not improve the public health care to make it equivalent to private health care?
So people will not visit public hospitals anymore. This would be acceptable if public health is also improved so that we close the gap that was created by the state. Why not resource public health with qualified doctors and specialists who are currently without employment?
The issue is the government managing the NHI fund - that’s the nails in our coffin… we all know what’s going to happen…it’s game over for us.
They can't even manage the post office and one wonders how they would manage NHI ???? Bottles one's mind honestly.
Summary:
The National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill was signed into law by President Cyril Ramaphosa, aiming to transition South Africa to Universal Health Coverage, ensuring equitable access to healthcare for all citizens regardless of income.
The NHI stems from a 2009 ANC-led study, addressing the inequalities in South Africa's two-tiered healthcare system, where a small private sector serves a minority, while the majority rely on the underfunded public sector.
The bill has faced opposition, particularly from the Democratic Alliance, which plans to challenge it in the Constitutional Court. Critics highlight concerns about inadequate governance, funding clarity, and the public health sector's ability to manage resources effectively.
Currently, 84.2% of South Africans use public healthcare services, while only 15.8% have access
to private healthcare, reflecting significant economic disparities.
The NHI funding model is based on social solidarity, but specifics on its financial implementation remain unclear, raising questions about potential tax increases and the reallocation of existing health budgets.
if it looks like a corrupt duck..it waddles like a corrupt duck and sounds like a corrupt duck...🤣
The only issue is corruption
Improve the public Healthcare system ,so that the medical aid that exploit people can be stopped.
So do we stop paying medical aid now and get all medical facilities for free like the other 84% ? I would be thankful, maybe I can also afford a better car, meat over weekends, visits to family twice a year....
Tax will increase though…
No it'll take decade before this can work, they just signed to get votes
I think theamount you pay for Medical Aid will be taxed and you will have the same horrible service like now
15:00 The graph they showed tells you something very important.... each taxpayer in South Africa is paying R25000 a month, per capita, to ensure ALL South Africans have healthcare. So you, a non-taxpayer, are getting R5200 each month in free healthcare because a taxpayer somewhere paid for you. How is that unfair to you? R5200... how is that unfair to you?
Well said alternative give you a bells for sure . You hit the nail on the head
I work hard for that money which the government wants to take and give it to a institution that is bit yet there!!
I pay for my medical aid!
Create jobs so our citizens can work for in income - no job, no use of NHI!!!
Go take money somewhere else.... Maybe your own pockets that you have gracefully filled over the last 30 years and use that!! I did not ask for NHI nor did I vote to get NHI!!!!
Middle class have access to private healthcare whilst they are working. Check with the retired group that can no longer afford to pay huge medical aid rates. Only the rich can afford private healthcare at retirement.
Middle class is paying a lot for strangers who don't even say thank you. Some of what that middle class pays for:
- Free water for non-taxpayers
- Free electricity for non-taxpayers
- Free RDPs for non-taxpayers
- Free healthcare (already) for non-taxpayers
- Free education for non-taxpayers
- Subsidized transport for non-taxpayers
- Free school lunches for non-taxpayers' kids
- Free cash for promiscuous women to have more kids
- Free cash for the jobless
...and many other freebies.
These freebies are NOT free, The taxpayer, largely that middle class is paying by having 30% of their salaries taken away from them. If they don't pay they face prison terms or risk losing property they have acquired through hard work.
In fact, there are laws upon laws that are designed to go after the very people who are paying for ALL the things South Africans are getting, be it policing, healthcare, government and what have you. Those laws are strict and aggressive! YET... what laws are there that go after the non-taxpayers collecting free stuff each month? I'll wait.
It is painful to work 8+ hours daily and commute while paying with YOUR own money to get to work yet at the end of the month government takes 30% of your money to give others. What adds insult to injury is that ANC presents those free things as if ANC is the one that donated the money!
It is not the "rich" that can afford private healthcare. it is the people who are looking after 57 million South Africans who, after paying for EVERYTHING in the country, deserve some reward for the sacrifice they are making for the nation. If you still insist on chowing more of their money then you don't understand taxation.
It is not a racial issue as SABC is trying to angle it. I'm black and on private care. I pay over R50 000 in tax towards your healthcare, SASSA grants, child care grants, free water/electricity/RDP and more. After paying for you I am left unable to afford things for me and my family and my black tax.
South Africans need to get themselves educated about where "gavament" gets money because that gold mine is going to dry up soon if you keep abusing it.
@@AlternativPerspectiv buddy….you clear know enough about this to think you’re right and not enough to know you’re wrong😂😂😂 so stfu please.
You’re current tax will not be increased to fund this, it will be redirected. Government workers receive around R70billion per annum in subsidised healthcare, the money will be redirected to this. Tax rebates from medical aids will be redirected etc etc.
You’re just a privilege idiot that thinks everything somehow affects you, it doesn’t. If you have a problem with he way the country is run, take your 50k you pay in taxes and leave, I heard Australia is nice. Dumb@ss
@@AlternativPerspectiv they are presenting it as if people are denied Med aid, its your choice, we have many black business bra who don't want to pay tax, medical aid nothing and yet they want access ton everything, another is this informal market of Spaza shops owned by foreigners who doesn't pay tax but are using the same health system. ANC can't govern ,they need guys who can analyse things out of the box and we will thrive as a nation . equation must balance , pay tax and get services and stop corruption by cadres private sector medicine will disappear on its own if we fix public sector . Stop subsidising GEMS and PALMED and other let them be pure private if they are so desperate.
Why not reduce the funding of the Private Sector as it only serves the minority
Just wondering where the president goes for health care? I'm sure not to any government hospital
The government’s decision to ignore private sector input on the National Health Insurance (NHI) Act has set it up for legal confrontation that could have been avoided, the head of private hospital group Netcare said on Monday.
President Cyril Ramaphosa assented to the controversial legislation last week, confounding the business sector that had expected him to delay signing it until after the May 29 elections...
The proposed funding is simply ridiculous. Why should taxpayers fund this? Why are we being punished for paying for our own personal healthcare? Better questions are - who is going to work for the NHI?? Are we going to get the same standard of medication?? Specialists, doctors, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, etc. are going to leave in droves. Already staffing at public hospitals is way, way below what is required. I love the way he uses the "misallocation" of resources. And the Covid money?? Was that misallocated?? I don't think it is the idea of the NHI, but the record of how tax payers money is used that is of major concern to all of us. The past speaks for itself. Why don't you cut the horrendous salary bill of government officials? Why doesn't the government look at its own spending before it tries to once again fleece the working people? Show some improvement and willingness to upgrade what is public healthcare at the moment and you may see people leaning a bit into this - a pensioner friend has been waiting nearly 3 years for an eye op at a provincial hospital. There are no specialists or proper equipment to perform the op. Is this our future?
I think the analysis they made has a rather major flaw. For instance yes 75% may go to salaries but firstly what percentage from the private healthcare budget goes to salaries? Secondly yes 75% goes to salaries but if all services are tender based then very quickly that 25% could actually be 15% in reality. Third the way to drop that 75% spending in salaries i to grow your economy so the budget increases and operations is prioritized again that's basic corporate budgeting/financing. Let's all remember there is a true agenda behind this but it will avail itself in future. Last point why would you try create a forcing policy that will create resistance instead of simply fixing what you fail to manage. This is kind of like buying a new hotel because you failing to manage an old one then tell people you are doing an amazing job.
Why is the SABC news channel monetized? Is that to make up for people who don't pay tv licence?
Once this law is implemented, we will see ANC leaders going overseas for treatment. I guarantee you that.
This is ANC media.
This is why we shouldn't vote ANC
Because of this
ANC has bought back my vote
Im coming home to ANC now
❤GRAPH
Misallocation of resources, in favor of the private sector, at the expense of public healthcare... What does this mean? That the private health sector has some influence on the monetary muscle, the managerial competence and integrity of the systems of the public health sector? And this is a time when an administration has returned unspent monies allocated to healthcare, and healthcare professionals are struggling to get work in the public sector. Why not allocate those resources appropriately? And consistently the framing of a "bad guy" taking from less fortunate, it is always that battle for the governing party. These are people working everyday, and surviving month to month, that pay their taxes and pay their medical aid fees themselves.
The DA should ask the courts for ANC to pay from their own pockets cause they destroyed the health care in the country and many other entities through their corruption .
What a performative Ramaphosa interview .You say windows are not installed because money went to salaries 🤣🤣🤣🤣 .Glass in South Africa is expensive under Ramaphosa I see. Trillions on rands it costs to buy one glass I suppose. I blame our education system.
What about the politicians- will there be treated like the average South African?
Our government doesn't have money for public hospitals so now ot seems lile the people of SA going to private hospitals are going pay. Ridiculous!
If you put private health in charge of statehospitals and clinics with the budget your already spending on health,private sector will quikly sort out government s mess.(Not goverment mess up private sectors healthcare)iff it is nt broken dont fix it.
The private hospitals, private medical aid and private healthcare is worth billions provided SOLELY by the private sector.
The government is solely responsible for the state health services with taxpayer money and is a total failure and 3rd world quality. The NHI will not be able to purchase healthcare from the private sector which is a more expensive service as it cannot with the money available at present spend the available money effectively on public sector healthcare.
Accessibility in rural areas will not improve whether it is NHI or private medical aid due to geographical realities.
Accessibility and availability of private healthcare resources in urban areas are based on the real need and economics of private healthcare. In other words the capacity of resources will not be able to cater for state demand.
This is socialistic and communistic interference in the private sector and an ideology that will cause the deterioration and destruction of healthcare in South Africa.
The sad fact is this NHI will be used by the ANC to swing more votes it's way.
The only hope is that right-minded, ethical professional blacks actually choose to speak up and vocalise, and educate the masses on the true nature of the ANC using all the official languages. The clock is ticking.
Why is Samkele wearing oversized suits? 😄😄😄😄😄😄 i mean he's still young but now looks like he wants to live like he's Tito Mboweni 🤭🤭🤭🤭
He borrowed it from Uncle Tiger Mantashe!! 😀😀😀
So he just admitted how they found a new way of stealing. Wow . Arrogance
So who is going to pay for that, taxpayers they going to pay for that, they going to pay twice those who are in medical aid
We just opened another door to loot.
Animal farm😂😂
Ha ha love it danglybit 😂😂😂😂
What narcissistic liar! Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi telling a campaign event that after the elections, if the ANC wins, anyone will be able to access the best private healthcare.
Sleepy Ramaphosa is clueless.
so this is the new thing? WHAT IS THE LATEST ON JOSLIN??
I would like to know how these two presenters access their medical care! They have put out a racial argument to justify this NHI. They don't break down, though, the racial make up of the 15.8% of the population who do have access to private medical care. No mention of the massive unemployment in South Africa, which is why so many can see neither a Doctor nor a hospital. I am very much in favour of an NHI, I feel that many South Africans don't appreciate the level of care already available to them, and the level of dedication shown by the Doctors and nurses already working for the State as Government employees. My response is to get the country working again, get jobs for all our people and this NHI, as now put forward, would not be necessary.
My question is who will fund it. There more social grant beneficial than working force. My fellow citizens brace yourself for TAX increase. Last kicks of a dying horse.
No business module can function effectively on 75% on salaries that's alarming.
So misinformed
NHI is not about sending people to private hospitals
Please learn to understand before u present issues
Anc en Nhi se ma se push
SABC. ANC propaganda channel.
Fully support NHI.
Because you are blind have you not looked at the cANCer's track record in managing anything. 500 pairs of Skinny jeans for Thembisa hospital.
Well done ANC abalwe le zinja
And the money