{"id":987525478,"date":"2022-09-12T03:47:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T02:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/why-south-africa-needs-national-health-insurance-in-nicholas-crisps-own-words\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T09:19:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T08:19:48","slug":"why-south-africa-needs-national-health-insurance-in-nicholas-crisps-own-words","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/why-south-africa-needs-national-health-insurance-in-nicholas-crisps-own-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Why South Africa \u00a0needs National Health Insurance, in Nicholas Crisp\u2019s own words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Nicholas Crisp-the Director General of Health, argues that given the degree of inequalities the South Africa is currently facing, a National Health Insurance &nbsp;is critical to ensure that all South African access healthcare without the financial hardship.<\/span><\/span><span><span> He further said that a single, universal system that made quality healthcare access equitable and more affordable was critical to put the country on a path towards universal health coverage. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>More about this news can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biznews.com\/health\/2022\/08\/11\/nhi-crisp\">here<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Crisp-the Director General of Health, argues that given the degree of inequalities the South Africa is currently facing, a National Health Insurance &nbsp;is critical to ensure that all South African access healthcare without the financial hardship. He further said that a single, universal system that made quality healthcare access equitable and more affordable was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1293,"featured_media":987526708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[127],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987525478"}],"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=987525478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987525478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987526708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987525478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987525478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987525478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}