Invest in hospitals and healthcare workers: Economist
That is the view of economist, Mike Schussler. He has been commenting on the country's National Health Insurance plans.
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Officials are hopeful the NHI will be implemented by 2026.Early estimates are that the NHI will cost some R250-billion to run, and South Africans will be expected to foot the bill through tax.
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Schussler believes the money would have been better spent on the country's struggling public hospitals and healthcare workers."We are spending a lot of money and that is the problem. Government things it can spend its way out of trouble instead of managing its way out of trouble," said Schussler.
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Schssuler feels it would be a better idea to consider bringing the private sector in to manage some of the country's public hospitals."We also need to do better quality checks and we probably need to address a lot of corruption in the hospitals," he continued.
