
Solidarity and BHF file court papers challenging NHI
The trade union says moves are afoot for members of the National Assembly to bring an application against the NHI Act.

The trade union says moves are afoot for members of the National Assembly to bring an application against the NHI Act.

Members of medical schemes are paying up to 30% more because the regulatory system broke down after the government’s focus shifted to NHI.

Solidarity and AfriForum are the first out of the starting blocks with legal challenges to the NHI Act.

The BHF’s canvassing of key policy issues in the public domain via a ‘deliberately leaked’ lawyer’s letter indicates the organisation ‘has run out of creative ideas’.

The CMS asserts that medical schemes have frequently disregarded the existing appeals procedures, exploiting them to the detriment of members’ interests.

The regulator comes out swinging in its response to the Board of Healthcare Funders’ claims of bullying and curatorship abuse.

The BHF raises 10 issues, including the ‘misuse’ of curatorships, whether NHI is informing policy prematurely, and the absence of low-cost benefit options.