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| South Africa's main opposition party, alongside a number of labour and business groups, have said they will take legal action against a bill aimed at providing universal health coverage. | |
| Earlier, we reported that South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was due to sign the contentious proposal into law on Wednesday. | |
| The National Health Insurance (NHI) bill seeks to give South Africans “of all races, rich or poor and legal long-term residents” access to quality healthcare. Its implementation would cost billions of dollars. | |
| On Tuesday, the Democratic Alliance (DA) party leader said his party would challenge the | |
| law "all the way to the Constitutional Court". | |
| "Our legal team was briefed months ago already | |
| and will file our legal challenge against this devastating | |
| legislation without delay," John Steenhuisen added. | |
| Elsewhere, trade union Solidariteit said it had warned Mr Ramaphosa that it would take legal action against the bill "within an hour" of it being signed on Wednesday. | |
| The South African Health Professionals Collaboration | |
| (SAHPC), which represents 25,000 healthcare workers in the | |
| public and private sectors, is quoted by news agency Reuters as saying it was also exploring a legal | |
| challenge. | |
| According to the Reuters news agency, the group said the bill would "reverse, rather than | |
| progress, equitable, quality healthcare in South Africa". | |
| Supporters of the bill hail it as a generational change that will reverse | |
| persistent inequality. | |
| The South African Medical | |
| Association Trade Union, which represents most public sector doctors, called it "a monumental shift towards achieving universal | |
| health coverage and ensuring that every South African has access | |
| to quality healthcare irrespective of their socio-economic | |
| status". | |
| South African MPs pass ‘revolutionary’ health bill | |
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