Feasibility of the National Health Insurance in South Africa

In the current society; South Africa’s health care has been left with a major gap, in quality and accessibility, between the wealthy and the impoverished, in the country. With the wealthier minority having access to the private sector of medicine, a sector with a higher and better level of health care, and the poverty-stricken majority having limited access to only the public sector, the sector funded by the government. Therefore the current South African government, the ANC, has proposed a policy called the NHI; that looks to lessen the gap between the public and private sectors of medicine, by: improving the accessibility to health services for all South Africans, irrespective of whether they are employed or not, to pool funds so that equity and social solidarity will be achieved through the creation of a single fund, to obtain services on behalf on the entire population and to strengthen the under-resourced and strained public sector so as to improve health systems perfor mance. 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