South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said on February 15 that he planned to sign into law a National Health Insurance bill that aims to provide universal health coverage to South Africans, although he did not give a time frame.
The bill, which will be implemented in stages at a cost of billions of dollars, is waiting for Ramaphosa's approval after it was passed by lawmakers last year. "It is a matter of time," he told journalists in Cape Town, without providing further details.
The law aims to provide healthcare to millions of poorer citizens in a major overhaul of a two-tier system, which still reflects deep racial and social inequalities three decades after the end of white minority rule.
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