{"id":66080,"date":"2024-05-15T11:37:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T11:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/do-you-think-ramaphosas-family-cabinet-members-should-cancel-medical-aids"},"modified":"2024-05-15T11:59:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T11:59:32","slug":"do-you-think-ramaphosas-family-cabinet-members-should-cancel-medical-aids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/do-you-think-ramaphosas-family-cabinet-members-should-cancel-medical-aids","title":{"rendered":"Do you think Ramaphosa\u2019s family, cabinet members should cancel medical aids?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Build One South Africa leader Mmusi Maimane has challenged President Cyril Ramaphosa and his cabinet to cancel their private medical aid cover and use public hospitals before signing the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill into law.Ramaphosa will sign the bill on Wednesday after five years of fierce debate since it was introduced to parliament in 2019. Though the government promises the NHI will provide improved health coverage to all South Africans, its implementation has been met with opposition and scepticism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore he signs the NHI Bill I challenge the president, his family, the cabinet and their families to cancel their private medical aids and use public healthcare immediately. There must be no healthcare obtained overseas,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Maimane had no hopes the scheme would succeed in South Africa under ANC governance.<\/p>\n<p><b>source:timeslive<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\">South-Africa<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. Build One South Africa leader Mmusi Maimane has challenged President Cyril Ramaphosa and his cabinet to cancel their private medical aid cover and use public hospitals before signing the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill into law.Ramaphosa will sign the bill on Wednesday after five years of fierce debate since it was introduced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":66079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,12],"tags":[274,315,275],"class_list":["post-66080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-files","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-africa","tag-south-africa-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Do you think Ramaphosa\u2019s family, cabinet members should cancel medical aids? 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