Medical aids in their current form are out under NHI — even if it means the end of the GNU, says Motsoaledi

One man's blind ideology and foolish dreams should not be allowed to destroy a nation. Vote this man and his destructive party out of power at the next elections.

The more Aaron speaks, the more he becomes a turkey! Blind, uninformed, incompetent! Perhaps he's mole?

Oh I didn't realise he was the boss of the whole GNU...

What an absolute idiot! Whatever this moron touches or gets involved in, ends up in failure and misery. How this incompetent party hack is still around just confirms the total ineptness and stupidity of the anc.

Motsoledi is now inflicting his disastrous “leadership” that he spewed on South Africans and foreigners alike, when he was Minister of Home Affairs onto the health of all South Africans. He and his fellow ANC ministers & families should be forbidden from medical aid and compelled to use state hospitals

Hopefully when the ANC government ministers feel poorly they will seek treatment under the NHI rather than scuttle off to Russia, Singapore or Cuba for their hospital stays.

The man is a walking disaster.

Fantastic arrogance from a party that has 14% national support.

Maybe I haven't been following this closely enough, but some questions: If we stop buying medical cover what happens to the Medical Aid providers? How do the Private Hospitals survive? Or will they be "Nationalised"? Do we pay more tax? This is surely just another Rape & Pillage scheme?

Be fair to Motsoaledi. The architect is Dr Crisp. He and other socialists think, “look how much private people spend on medical aid” - ignoring this is because much public health, that he is responsible for, is disfunctional - and simplistically say - let’s take it and put it into public health.

In preparation for the NHI I suggest that all cANCer members use the current state facilities that are available to the citizens of South Africa

Take note on these GNU utterances. The GNU is a Ramaphosa masterstroke - it's a ventilator to keep the ANC corpse breathing while they try to revive and cure it. The ANC does not see it as anything more than an interim, salty tasting interruption in their lives.

Does he know that in 2011 private and public hospitals accounted for 38.4% and 61.6% of all hospitals in China, respectively. By 2021, these numbers nearly reversed with private hospitals outnumbering public hospitals by a ratio of 2.1–1.0. Isn't China the ANC role model?

Breathtaking arrogance from a moron, earflaps closed, a loyal comrade out to destroy something that works? He must be an ANC cadre!

R3 billion (BILLION) syphoned off by crooks in Tembisa Hospital alone via around 5000 channels of smoke and mirrors contracts/admin transactions. Imagine all state hospitals and medicine on NHI's estimated R4 billion admin income p.a. What a juicy cash cow for Motsoaledi and his cohorts.

Motsoaledi clearly has no understanding as to the "ownership" of Medical Aid funds, held in trust for the benefit of insured individuals who have paid these funds into the medical aid, Trustee arrangements. Is theft no GNU government policy? Sort out the parts actually under your control control.

Arrogant Aaron needs to put his money where his mouth is & start using government facilities. Even better get rid of the government medical aid & see the backlash from public servants

The minister seems to think that collapsing the GNU will leave the ANC in power. Perhaps his advisors should tell him that the ANC will need to either negotiate a new multi party government or call new elections?

What an arrogant man he is and seems to think he is head of this country. Time he was removed from this post. I trust he is hit with all the court costs involved in fighting this nonsensical idea of NHI in a 3rd or even 4th world country.

Ag liewe Here Hoe het die man weer die minister van gesondheid geword?

government medical aids including polmed etc must close their doors immediately, all funds must be handed over to the health department, as funding NHI, and no politician or member of the anc must be permitted to seek medical attention at any facility other than a government operated health facility

This man is proof that to be a Marxist socialist you have to be stupid.

So this is the new political landscape.... It is MY way, or nobody's way And if you do not like it...well then we bring the house of cards down FOOLISH, CHILDISH AND UTTERLY CONTEMTABLE

What a fool... Can we really risk another setback in the progress we're making to get the country back on track? Absolutely not. Aaron will have access to private healthcare abroad, while we’ll be left without even basic pain medication.

Motsoaledi destroyed public healthcare as a Zuma minister, before being shoved off to Home Affairs, which he destroyed as well. Now back to finish off private healthcare too. He is singularly useless, unfit for office and a threat to South Africa's future, but Cyril is too aloof to see this.

It would be easier just to get rid of this comrade and his lapdog Nicholis Crisp than to debate a disaster like NHI.

Finally, the mask is removed and his faction revealed.

NH or collapse GNU. Is this ANC policy, the minister's policy, or what?

Relax : this is the same government that cannot eliminate pit toilets. It will take eleventy dozen years to implement. Maybe more when the implementers are also on private medical aids and don’t like what they see happening in the public health system that they are running right now.

He won't be getting my medical aid money. I'll give it up before that happens.

I very much doubt that this attempt to disband medical aids would pass the constitutional requirement of freedom of choice for all citizens. I accept that private care is very expensive and the tax deduction for private care would probably have to be phased out, but the right to see a health worker of your choice cannot be denied.

we just went into the GNU because the situation demanded it…” yes, Aaron, you. LOST THE ELECTION. I’m shouting because you are hard of hearing, and you seem to be in pathological denial of that. There is no way, regardless of whether its a good idea or not, that this administration, and especially your failing ministry, can implement or even start to implement the NHI.

Be a hero Minister, clean up the current Health Services. There is enough money i.e.R100bill in medico legal claims can be saved plus the salaries of negligent doctors, nurses etc. How much can be saved if medicine is not stolen, another few R bill. Then lets talk NHI you are wasting your 85% !

Getting high on your own supply for 30 years makes it to to distinguish between fantasy and reality. Shem.

Before we get excited about this poor wretch, let's first find out of which end of his body is he releasing this drivel.

Voetsek, you all leaking your lips to defraud the coffers of billions, that's what this is about

The arrogance of Motsaledi is simply staggering. His first priority should be to fix the failed public healthcare system which has collapsed from world class before 1994 to an absolute shambles thanks to ANC incompetence, cadre deployment not to mention unrestrained thievery by "Comrades. I am in favour of NHI but that only works when the public healthcare system is functioning. The medical aids rip off their clients at a biblical pace so I would be in favour of the NHI for that reason alone, HOWEVER NHI in it's current form will only cause the collapse of the entire medical system not to mention a mass migration of doctors to other countries. Someone should ask the minister when last he went to a state owned hospital for treatment??

We have 3479 Clinics/Community Centres, 45% of which are dysfunctional; 364 State Hospitals 60% of which are the same. We have 200 functional private hospitals with 76 Medical schemes serving 9 699 000 members, over half of which are black. Private sector collaboration the only way forward.

Motsoaledi - the animal in the room! Disgusting! ...and damnedly dangerous, an epithet he would love!

Motsoaledi - the animal in the room! Disgusting! ...and damnedly dangerous, an epithet he would love!