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    Minister champions NHI

    Sue MaclennanBy Sue MaclennanOctober 30, 20171 Comment2 Mins Read
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    Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi championed the NHI as a health care funding pool for all South Africans at the AB Xuma Memorial LEcture at RHodes University this week. Photo: Sue Maclennan

    Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi was refreshingly frank in the face of difficult questions following his address at Rhodes University this week. The guest of the Institute for Socio-Economic Research, he was in town to deliver the seventh Dr AB Xuma Memorial Lecture.

    On the topic, ‘Overcoming Health Inequality through a People’s NHI,’ the Minister addressed criticisms of South Africa’s National Health Insurance, which has just completed its first four-year research phase. Motsoaledi emphasised South Africans’ unequal access to quality health care, aligned with their socio-economic status.

    Private health care, in which 4.4% of the country’s GDP was invested, served 16% of the population, Motsoaledi said. “The other 84% they pretend don’t exist.”

    The NHI, he argued, would pool funds for equal access to health care for all South Africans.

    He fielded questions including about the risk of the fund becoming another target for looting by corrupt officials, and what would become of the initiative when he wakes up one morning to find he is out of favour and has been “reshuffled”.

    He presented eye-watering illustrations of dysfunctional spending on health care.

    Alfred Bitini Xuma was a medical doctor and a prominent political and human rights leader who became President of the ANC in 1940.

    WATCH THE VIDEO: http://bit.ly/MotsoalediRhodes

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