National Health Insurance in South Africa
Other Political Party Views of National Health Insurance
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Several other political parties made reference to National Health Insurance in their manifestos and policy documents for the national elections held in April 2009. There seems to be an unusually high level of political agreement behind the idea of universal coverage and a mandatory health system.
http://www.acdp.org.za/index.php?page=policy10
“Our overall aim is to reduce taxation of companies so that they, together with their employees can contribute towards medical saving schemes. The idea of the health savings scheme is to encourage companies under the reduced TEAL taxation method to provide health insurance benefits to their workers. Instead of a full payment on health insurance, employees are required to contribute at least one third to this fund, while the company pays the balance. The company's contribution provides for general health care, while the employee's share is put away for health coverage in the case of unemployment or exhaustion of their health benefits. Through this scheme, the employee pays a lower premium per annum as the employer covers the rest. The employee thereby saves whilst being provided with full health insurance cover.”
http://www.congressofthepeople.org.za/documents/cope_manifesto.pdf
“Among other things we will ensure that: .... develop a strategic partnership with the private health care providers in order to extend affordable health provision for all our people; the transformation of the health sector is prioritised and that the private and the public sector services are integrated;”
“The DA supports some individual aspects of the broad social health insurance plan. For example, we support compulsory medical aid contributions because we believe that individuals who are able to should be expected to make their own plans for medical cover. However, we object, on grounds of both principle and practicality, to the broader framework of the NHI.
“These proposals amount primarily to a restructuring of the way in which health care is financed, with the imposition of a more complex and layered system, more government involvement in the financing of private health care and the creation of centralised payment collection unit. The DA believes that the priority in health care does not relate to changing how the system is funded, but rather to improving the basics of delivery. Furthermore, the government’s proposals remove many of the elements from the market for health care that have been shown across the world to be essential components of any properly functioning market, and competition and choice in particular.”
“If more money is to be allocated to public health care, and the DA believes this is necessary, this money should come from the general tax revenue pool rather from ring-fenced funds, because ring-fencing is less efficient and direct and involves the creation of further cumbersome layers of bureaucracy.”
Democratic Alliance (2008). Quality care for all. The DA’s plan for health care in an open opportunity society for all. November 2008. URL: http://www.da.org.za/docs/655/health-review11.pdf?PHPSESSID=6b7d2123e2009dfb1de9ab933c172b6c
http://www.id.org.za/policies/2009-id-manifesto/ “The Independent Democrats believes not only in health care for all, but in quality health care for all. It is clear that more money needs to be directed at improving the desperate state of many of our countries hospitals and clinics. This could be achieved through the introduction of a National Health Insurance Scheme with the money being directed at improving the public health care sector.”
http://www.ifp.org.za/2009/2009NATIONALMANIFESTO-FULL.pdf
National Health Insurance is not specifically mentioned.
http://www.udm.org.za/docs/2009_manifesto_reduce.pdf
National Health Insurance is not specifically mentioned.
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