NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE BILL READY TO LEAVE PARLIAMENT

NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE BILL READY TO LEAVE PARLIAMENT

• 22 November 2023
• Parliament
• SA Legal Academy

The National Health Insurance Bill’s ‘B’ version has been adopted by the NCOP Committee on Health & Social Services without any further amendments. This is confirmed in a committee report tabled in the House following a comprehensive, lengthy public participation process that included hearings conducted by each provincial legislature.

At this stage, it is not clear when the House will consider the committee report and vote on the Bill.

Tabled in 2019 and also subjected to extensive nationwide public hearings by the National Assembly’s Health Committee, once operationalised the National Health Insurance Bill will establish of a fund from which health care services for all registered users will be purchased.

With that in mind, according to a memorandum on the Bill’s objects it:

• provides for the necessary governance structures, and
• lays the foundation for creating:
• ‘mechanisms for the equitable, effective and efficient utilisation’ of the fund’s resources, and
• measures to ‘limit undesirable, unethical and unlawful practices in relation to the fund and its users’.

Once the Bill has been enacted, a phased five-year implementation process is envisaged.

• Bill’s ‘B’ version
• parliamentary papers, including the committee report (page 48)

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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