Online articles:

• Johann Serfontein in Business Day argues that the price of NHI is fundamental to assessing its viability 
• Rapport points to the failures of the NHI pilot sites   
• The Minister says the estimated cost of the NHI is a thumb suck
• Sunday Times reports on umbrella medical schemes as proposed by actuary Shivani Ranchod  
• Clinix Group declares itself ‘excited’ by the NHI 
• Finally Shanthi Naidoo at IOL asks whether the Minister is Mr Fix or My Hyde?
• The Minister calls private healthcare robbery.”
• A former head of the Junior Doctors Association says: “We really do not need the National Health Insurance“
• Alex van den Heever says the announced Bills are long on objective and short on substance
• Kerry Culling argues that the real problem is not how much the NHI costs but the state of public healthcare
• TimesLive quotes the Minister saying there are oncology machines but no oncologists to use them