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The R1 billion set aside for the first rollout of NHI would be better spent on building new clinics and a shakeup of existing health facilities, DA MP Wilmot James said in Parliament on Wednesday.
South Africa needed universal health care, but not through the ''elaborate, overcomplicated, convoluted and monumentally costly'' National Health Insurance, he said in reply to President Jacob Zuma's State of the Nation Address.
The money would be better spent shaking up the existing health system, starting with a war room to track ambulance response times because people said they did not arrive.
