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Johannesburg - The Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF) supports the introduction
of National Health Insurance (NHI) and wants to be involved in
setting it up, said Clarence Mini, chair of the board's
regulatory and policy committee, on Friday.
"We think we will be able to play a very meaningful role," said
Mini at a media conference ahead of a meeting next week of board
members to discuss NHI.
Although the details of how the NHI would work were not yet
clear, the board said it had decided it was best to be involved in
the process.
Mini said the NHI could also provide additional business
opportunities for medical schemes to extend their reach beyond the
current more than seven million people they service, to the pool of
the estimated 49 million people living in South Africa.
Said Humphrey Zokufa, the board's managing director: "We support
the NHI and are going a step further to make proposals on it.
"Next week we will consult our full membership... we want to
make sure the NHI does not cause much turbulence in South Africa."
A draft bill on the NHI, which will combine the public and
private health sectors, is expected in Parliament in December.
The BHF represents most medical schemes in southern Africa.
- Sapa