By Amy Musgrave
The SA Communist Party has called on South Africans to increase their support for the National Health Insurance (NHI), as they did with the Basic Education Laws Amendment Act.
It its year-end statement, the SACP said that the country needed large-scale public and social infrastructure development and maintenance, a thriving public economy and a caring social policy.
SACP spokesperson Alex Mashilo said that should include decisive implementation of the NHI to ensure quality healthcare for all, and a comprehensive social security system with a universal basic income grant.
“In this regard, the battle for uncompromised holistic implementation of the Basic Education Laws Amendment Act is as crucial as the battle for uncompromised holistic implementation of the National Health Insurance to intensify,” he said.
While there is opposition to the NHI from some quarters, the Health Department recently announced that an NHI board was expected to be appointed
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