National Health Insurance Exposed (From the Editor‪)‬

South Africa's greatest health news story for the past decades has been the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The next great story, which will remain headline news as it unfolds, will be National Health Insurance (NHI). Changes envisaged for the USA and South Africa have similarities; (1) both suffer from escalating health care costs, poor outcomes for expenditure on health care, and fragmentation of services. A recent 'Health Summit' (2) hosted by the SAMJ and Leadership magazine provided a platform to expose the proposed NHI. Themes that emerged included that most citizens of South Africa favour a revamp of South Africa's current health system, but strong voices of reason urge caution of the perils ahead with the looming NHI!