The Health Funders Association is the sixth organisation to launch a legal challenge to the NHI Act, describing it as ‘unaffordable, unworkable and unconstitutional’.
The Health Funders Association (HFA), a nonprofit representing 20 medical schemes and three administrators in South Africa’s private healthcare funding sector, has become the latest organisation to launch a legal challenge to the National Health Insurance Act.
On Thursday, 5 June the HFA announced the challenge, which has been lodged in the Gauteng Division of the High Court in Pretoria. The organisation has said that while it supports the “goal of universal health coverage”, it considers the NHI Act to be “unaffordable, unworkable and unconstitutional”.
“Litigation is not our preferred route but it is, under these circumstances, the responsible one to protect our economy and the future of healthcare in our country,” said NFA chief executive Thoneshan Naidoo.
Unconstitutional and invalid
