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Submitted | first-name | support | top-concern | message |
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2026-01-01 14:31:57 +02:00 | Johannes | No I do not | Ch.1 Purpose and Application | |
2025-12-31 08:34:22 +02:00 | Adriana | No I do not | Ch.1 Purpose and Application | |
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 | |
2025-12-28 22:46:14 +02:00 | Juan | No I do not | Ch.10 Financial matters | No, I do not support the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill. While universal healthcare access is a worthy goal, this Bill is unaffordable, with no clear sustainable funding beyond massive tax increases that South Africa cannot bear amid low growth and high unemployment. It centralises vast power in a single fund vulnerable to corruption and mismanagement, ignores public sector failures (understaffing, infrastructure decay), risks driving doctors abroad, and effectively destroys private medical schemes—removing choice for millions. Fix the public system first instead of this reckless overhaul. |
2025-12-28 19:56:40 +02:00 | Louis | No I do not | Ch.10 Financial matters | |
2025-12-20 19:35:09 +02:00 | Jaco | No I do not | Ch.10 Financial matters | I strongly oppose the implementation of the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill.While the goal of universal access to quality healthcare is commendable and aligns with constitutional imperatives, the proposed NHI system, as currently structured, is financially unfeasible given South Africa's constrained fiscal environment and competing national priorities.South Africa already provides public healthcare services to the majority of citizens, yet this sector suffers from severe mismanagement, infrastructure decay, staffing shortages, and widespread corruption. Entrusting a vastly larger, centralised fund to the same governance structures risks amplifying these issues on an unprecedented scale, potentially leading to further resource misallocation and diminished service quality.Citizens should retain freedom of choice in selecting healthcare providers and maintaining control over their personal health decisions. The private sector currently delivers efficient, high-quality care and should be leveraged as a partner rather than constrained.Government must first demonstrate effective stewardship by urgently reforming and strengthening the existing public healthcare system—addressing corruption, improving management, and ensuring reliable service delivery—before contemplating a comprehensive overhaul like NHI. Only then can public trust be rebuilt to support broader reforms that genuinely benefit all South Africans. |
2025-12-18 08:24:05 +02:00 | Yvette | No I do not | Ch.3 Establishment, Functions and Powers of the NHI | |
2025-12-16 09:54:42 +02:00 | Brenton | No I do not | Ch.3 Establishment, Functions and Powers of the NHI | I do not support the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill as currently framed, despite its stated objective of achieving universal access to quality Healthcare. Private care should still be availible should I choose to have it and not be restricted to government approved care. This is absurd. |
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 |
2025-12-13 16:34:38 +02:00 | Mark | No I do not | Ch.10 Financial matters | I strongly oppose the implementation of the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill.While the goal of universal access to quality healthcare is commendable and aligns with constitutional imperatives, the proposed NHI system, as currently structured, is financially unfeasible given South Africa's constrained fiscal environment and competing national priorities.South Africa already provides public healthcare services to the majority of citizens, yet this sector suffers from severe mismanagement, infrastructure decay, staffing shortages, and widespread corruption. Entrusting a vastly larger, centralised fund to the same governance structures risks amplifying these issues on an unprecedented scale, potentially leading to further resource misallocation and diminished service quality.Citizens should retain freedom of choice in selecting healthcare providers and maintaining control over their personal health decisions. The private sector currently delivers efficient, high-quality care and should be leveraged as a partner rather than constrained.Government must first demonstrate effective stewardship by urgently reforming and strengthening the existing public healthcare system—addressing corruption, improving management, and ensuring reliable service delivery—before contemplating a comprehensive overhaul like NHI. Only then can public trust be rebuilt to support broader reforms that genuinely benefit 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. |
2025-12-12 06:39:54 +02:00 | Elnette | No I do not | Ch.2 Access to Healthcare services | |
2025-12-11 08:15:24 +02:00 | Russell | No I do not | Ch.10 Financial matters | |
2025-12-11 07:15:20 +02:00 | Carl | No I do not | Ch.3 Establishment, Functions and Powers of the NHI | I do not support the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill as currently framed, despite its stated objective of achieving universal access to quality health care. While the goal of improving equity in health care is important, the Bill presents significant structural, financial and governance risks that could ultimately weaken, rather than strengthen, South Africa’s health system. The Bill proposes a single, centralised National Health Insurance Fund responsible for purchasing and managing all health services. Concentrating this level of financial and operational control in one entity introduces a high risk of inefficiency, mismanagement and corruption—issues that have repeatedly challenged existing state-run systems. The Bill does not provide sufficiently robust safeguards, independent oversight mechanisms or clear financing models to ensure sustainability. Furthermore, the Bill severely restricts the role of private medical schemes, reducing individual choice and placing substantial pressure on the public sector before reliable capacity has been demonstrated. Without clear funding strategies, realistic costing, or phased capacity building, the NHI model risks overwhelming the system and reducing quality of care for all. For these reasons, I urge the Select Committee to reconsider the Bill and engage in broader, evidence-based consultation to develop a more practical, sustainable and accountable path toward universal health coverage. |
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. |
2025-12-10 08:59:35 +02:00 | Dirk | No I do not | Ch.3 Establishment, Functions and Powers of the NHI | It will destroy healthcare in South Africa |
2025-12-10 08:56:06 +02:00 | Johan | No I do not | Ch.2 Access to Healthcare services | |
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 16:29:36 +02:00 | Johan | No I do not | Ch.2 Access to Healthcare services | 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. |
2025-12-07 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 19:38:10 +02:00 | Fernando | No I do not | Ch.10 Financial matters | This current government will destroy the current Medical Aid Scheme |
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. |
2025-11-28 08:28:03 +02:00 | Edouard | No I do not | Ch.3 Establishment, Functions and Powers of the NHI |