The top court struck down the state’s certificate-of-need scheme. It serves as a warning to NHI’s architects: good intentions aren’t enough

While legal challenges to NHI play out, it’s crucial that the healthcare system remains stable, functioning – and moving forwards

The trade union’s political future may be the only rational explanation for its pig-headed support of the ANC’s NHI dream

Mark your calendar: here is the political and economic news to watch out for this week

Despite the president’s assertions, neither the Freedom Charter nor the UN say that the ANC’s NHI is the only option to achieve universal health coverage

Alex van den Heever says NHI lacks the legal, fiscal and constitutional foundations to work, while urgent health reforms have been sidelined.

Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi is stubbornly clinging to the belief that NHI will save South Africa. Others know it’s dead in the water

Broken promises that the NHI won’t be funded by new taxes show it’s driven more by electioneering than a genuine plan to fix healthcare.

If you think the ANC is going to magic National Health Insurance into existence, you may as well believe in unicorns