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Submitted | first-name | support | top-concern | message |
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2026-01-27 11:56:28 +02:00 | Gayle | No I do not | Ch.1 Purpose and Application | Please don't kill what remains of our health system. People are returning from the UK because of their NHI system and theirs is well established with a better base for contributing too it. It is not practical for SA to adopt it as we do not have a work force to support it. in addition you are taking our choice away and forcing us to use government operated hospitals which since the ANC has taken over has become a disgrace. Please don't make our doctors who are so few go overseas to avoid the war zone in our health system this will cause. Please don't try create a legacy which will fail and put the citizens in a worse off position medically which they are in now. In addition I wish you would pass a law which forces politicians to go to these public hospitals like you are trying to do for the people on the streets. You do not deserve better than us. I will take an educated guess that you will go overseas for better care and leave us to suffer. |
2026-01-26 08:36:27 +02:00 | Hardus | No I do not | Ch.3 Establishment, Functions and Powers of the NHI | I object to the NHI Bill. The government is asking South Africans to trust a single, centralised health system even though the existing public sector is collapsing due to corruption, mismanagement, and poor performance. Many public hospitals receive similar or even greater resources than private facilities, yet outcomes are dramatically worse because of weak governance, political appointments, procurement failures, and a complete lack of accountability. Nothing in the NHI Bill fixes these systemic problems. The NHI centralises procurement and funding into one national structure, which increases the risk of large‑scale corruption. If officials cannot manage hospital budgets, maintain equipment, or run provincial systems effectively, there is no reason to believe they will suddenly perform better when given even more power and money. The same people who mismanage the current system will be running the NHI. The Bill also removes choice by limiting the role of medical aids and forcing all citizens into a single state‑controlled system. This reduces competition, weakens accountability, and risks driving skilled healthcare professionals out of the country. A health system cannot succeed if it loses the very staff needed to operate it. Instead of addressing the real causes of failure — corruption, poor management, staff shortages, equipment breakdowns, and collapsing infrastructure — the NHI attempts to restructure the entire system from the top down. Centralising a failing system does not fix it; it simply magnifies the failures. I request that the NHI Bill be withdrawn or fundamentally revised to prioritise repairing existing facilities, improving governance, enforcing accountability, and restoring public trust before any national funding model is considered. |
2026-01-22 09:19:48 +02:00 | Gwen | No I do not | Ch.4, 5, 6, 7 The Board, CEO, Committees and Advisory | |
2026-01-21 10:47:27 +02:00 | Laura | No I do not | Ch.10 Financial matters | Business has already asked for consultation on this matter to find ways to achieve healthcare for all without compromising the current structures. Government needs to listen |
2026-01-19 14:36:58 +02:00 | Jeremy | No I do not | Ch.8 Operational provisions | |
2026-01-19 10:05:05 +02:00 | Ashiana | No I do not | Ch.2 Access to Healthcare services | |
2026-01-19 07:56:41 +02:00 | Moegamat | Yes I do | Ch.10 Financial matters | |
2026-01-14 16:51:19 +02:00 | John | No I do not | Ch.3 Establishment, Functions and Powers of the NHI | The inescapable FACT is that the Department of Health and the current Minister cannot properly, effectively and honestly manage the current State Hospital system. The State President recently loudly praised a certain Public Hospital as an outstanding example of ANC competence but within a week it was proved that this same institution was riddled with theft and corruption mounting to BILLIONS of Rand. Then came reports of total mismanagement of Public Hospitals across the North West province, KZN and others so HOW ON EARTH can so useless a Department and Minister EVER hope to efficiently, honestly, and competently manage the NHI? Remember that the now Deputy Minister drafted the original Bill to give HIMSELF totalitarian, dictatorial, control over all aspect of health care in complete ignorance of the administrative and financial aspects thereof. |
2026-01-14 07:50:49 +02:00 | Renier | No I do not | Ch.1 Purpose and Application | The government (ANC) has proved over the past 30 years that it cannot be trusted with the systems that we already have. They have mismanaged it and plundered what we had, look at the condition of state hospitals and the shortage of staff. Interns and community service doctors have to work 27 hour shifts regularly because there are not enough doctors. Now they want to expand this broken and plundered system with funds that don't exist, whilst in the process trying to gut the existing private healthcare system. It is completely unfeasible and ridiculous. Additionally, the idea of nationalised healthcare doesn't work, even in countries where they have funds to support it. The ANC wants yet another branch to centralise more power that they can then exploit to enrich themselves. |
2026-01-09 15:50:40 +02:00 | Alan | No I do not | Ch.10 Financial matters | Corruption |
2026-01-09 08:35:41 +02:00 | Deon | No I do not | Ch.10 Financial matters | It is just another way to steal money. |
2026-01-06 17:56:01 +02:00 | Angela | No I do not | Ch.3 Establishment, Functions and Powers of the NHI | |
2025-12-30 15:33:02 +02:00 | Willem | No I do not | Ch.2 Access to Healthcare services | |
2025-12-30 08:56:30 +02:00 | Piet | No I do not | Ch.10 Financial matters | |
2025-12-18 08:24:05 +02:00 | Yvette | No I do not | Ch.3 Establishment, Functions and Powers of the NHI | |
2025-12-15 14:35:22 +02:00 | Jang Choob | Yes I do | Ch.10 Financial matters | In essence, it is a good idea. But where will the money come from? Perhaps it should be a compulsory salary deduction, similar to UIF. |
2025-12-15 01:31:06 +02:00 | STEPHAN | No I do not | Other | GOVERMENT HAS FAILED IN ALL OF THEIR ENDEAVORES THIS WILL BE ANTHER FAILURE |
2025-12-14 11:20:22 +02:00 | Wimpie | No I do not | Other | The entire bill is problematic and will fail in practice if implemented, so I cannot single out any specific concern alone. Rather work with the private sector to see how a sustainable approach can be created that better meets the objectives of providing heath care for all South Africans. |
2025-12-12 15:01:50 +02:00 | Jennifer | No I do not | Other | The whole bill is to create yet another way to fleece taxpayers and create a huge pot of money to be stolen by those in power. I do not consent. |
2025-12-11 08:15:24 +02:00 | Russell | No I do not | Ch.10 Financial matters | |
2025-12-10 16:59:42 +02:00 | Pieter | No I do not | Ch.1 Purpose and Application | In a free society people must be allowed to choose their own medical service providers. The state should never be allowed to stand between the public and the health care industry, and while healthcare must be regulated to ensure public safety, free market economics must remain sacrosanct. Anything less is to allow this government to further its communist agenda which will have no other outcome than the utter economic destruction of South Africa. The state already offers free healthcare for all. The problem is that they have destroyed service delivery through corruption and incompetence. Until they state fixes the existing health care system the NHI cannot be anything other than performative politics or a cynical money grab. |
2025-12-09 19:04:34 +02:00 | Kobus | No I do not | Ch.10 Financial matters | You cant grasp the idea that nothing is for free. One of the dumbest ideas you came up with. Who is goiing to freed the enormous bill? You amaze me more and more with your stupid ideas! It keeps on coming |
2025-12-09 14:24:35 +02:00 | michen | No I do not | Other | It wasn't possible to select all of the options as a concern. I think it is good for us as a nation to look after those that have fallen through the cracks, to help those in need, that can't afford it. This way, though, is just a no no. There are too many unemployed for this to be a viable solution. We are a long ways away from our economy being diverse and strong enough to be able to take a step that would carry a whole nation in this way. If ESKOM is anything to go by, it would be a genuine disaster for this nation; a serious disaster. |
2025-12-07 07:39:58 +02:00 | Eugene | No I do not | Other | I object to any bill, legislation or law that this governments or any so called leaders are forcing onto us. |
2025-12-04 09:31:17 +02:00 | Brenda | No I do not | Ch.3 Establishment, Functions and Powers of the NHI | |
2025-12-03 20:03:59 +02:00 | Marnus | No I do not | Ch.10 Financial matters | Retarded, cannot be implemented without a collapsing the medical industry. |
2025-12-03 09:11:24 +02:00 | C | No I do not | Other | The NHI bill is unaffordable by the country and even more tax money will disappear into the failed corrupt state of RSA that is run by corrupt officials. |
2025-12-03 07:42:50 +02:00 | JG | No I do not | Ch.3 Establishment, Functions and Powers of the NHI | Stop wasting taxpayer money to continue to create funding funnels for governmental cader members. The NHI isn’t even financially or constitutionally viable. Once a again a “noble idea” that ends up being a restriction on the freedom of South African citizens. If the same effort was put into the removal of corruption and neglect at state hospitals, there would be no need for any type of NHI. |
2025-12-03 07:33:35 +02:00 | Claudette | No I do not | Ch.3 Establishment, Functions and Powers of the NHI | This bill must be scrapped immediatediately. It is unethical, unconstitutional, and does nothing to address the concerns we are currently facing regarding the degradation of our public healthcare facilities. NHI is unaffordable, we have to fix and upgrade our current public healthcare facilities , and not waste money we dont have on something that is doomed to fail. |
2025-12-03 07:33:35 +02:00 | Claudette | No I do not | Ch.3 Establishment, Functions and Powers of the NHI | This bill must be scrapped immediatediately. It is unethical, unconstitutional, and does nothing to address the concerns we are currently facing regarding the degradation of our public healthcare facilities. NHI is unaffordable, we have to fix and upgrade our current public healthcare facilities , and not waste money we dont have on something that is doomed to fail. |