{"id":987521264,"date":"2021-08-15T03:02:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T02:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/south-africa-debates-bill-to-provide-universal-health-care\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:48:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:48:53","slug":"south-africa-debates-bill-to-provide-universal-health-care","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/south-africa-debates-bill-to-provide-universal-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa debates Bill to provide Universal Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>South Africa&#8217;s parliament debates the National Health Insurance bill, a plan for universal health care that proponents said will bring justice and equality to the health care system in this deeply unequal country. Some critics argue that the plan is too ambitious, and&nbsp; doubt the ability of the government to implement it. &nbsp;According to the government, only 15% of South Africans have health insurance, whereas, the rest fall&nbsp;to the nation&#8217;s overburdened public health care system.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>More on this can be find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/africa\/south-africa-debates-bill-provide-universal-health-care\">here<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s parliament debates the National Health Insurance bill, a plan for universal health care that proponents said will bring justice and equality to the health care system in this deeply unequal country. Some critics argue that the plan is too ambitious, and&nbsp; doubt the ability of the government to implement it. &nbsp;According to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1293,"featured_media":987532536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[123],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987521264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987532536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987521264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987521264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987521264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}