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The South African health system both in the public and private sectors is fraught with many challenges which render the system unsustainable, costly, hospi-centric, and destructive. In order to curb this loop hole in the health sector, South Africa introduced the National Health Insurance (NHI) that is aimed at providing universal coverage of health care. The objectives of NHI is to provide improved access to quality health services for all South Africans irrespective of whether they are employed or not; to pool risks and funds so that equity and social solidarity will be achieved through the creation of a single fund, to procure services on behalf of the entire population and efficiently mobilize and control key financial resources and to strengthen the under-resourced and strained public sector so as to improve health systems performance. This paper evaluates the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP), Growth, Employment and Redistribution (GER), New Growth Path (NGP) and National Development Plan (NDP) policies to determine the challenges and positive aspects of these policies that can be used for the successful implementation of the NHI. The paper further draws lessons from Singapore that has already implemented the NHI and argues that South Africa can learn a lot from these countries experiences. It is concluded that each of the countries provide inspiring positive lessons and also show areas of challenges from which South Africa can draw some lessons. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n23p2722

Access to Quality Health Services for All South Africans through the National Health Insurance Scheme: Lessons from Singapore