NHI is bugbear of the upper crust – The Mail & Guardian

NHI is bugbear of the upper crust – The Mail & Guardian

Some of South Africa’s most powerful business lobbies, private healthcare interests and affluent constituencies have turned to the courts to challenge the national health insurance (NHI) Act.  They are determined to protect profits and their exclusive access to quality healthcare. Behind the legal arguments lies a determination to preserve a longstanding imbalance in which access to quality healthcare remains heavily determined by income, medica…