{"id":219333,"date":"2026-01-05T22:34:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-cnam-crisis-driven-by-liquidity-crunch-calls-for-sweeping-social-security-reform-expert\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T22:34:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:34:32","slug":"tunisia-cnam-crisis-driven-by-liquidity-crunch-calls-for-sweeping-social-security-reform-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-cnam-crisis-driven-by-liquidity-crunch-calls-for-sweeping-social-security-reform-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: CNAM Crisis Driven By Liquidity Crunch, Calls for Sweeping Social Security Reform &#8211; &#8211; Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">Tunis, Jan. 4 \u2014 Tunisia&#8217;s health insurance system, which covers about 3.5 million members and is characterised by a diversity of treatment schemes, is facing a severe liquidity crisis that has led to the current dispute between the National Health Insurance Fund (CNAM) and private healthcare providers, according to social protection expert Badr Smaoui.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">In an interview at the TAP television studio, Smaoui said the paradox lies in the fact that, from an accounting perspective, CNAM records a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601050462.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunis, Jan. 4 \u2014 Tunisia&#8217;s health insurance system, which covers about 3.5 million members and is characterised by a diversity of treatment schemes, is facing a severe liquidity crisis that has led to the current dispute between the National Health Insurance Fund (CNAM) and private healthcare providers, according to social protection expert Badr Smaoui. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":219334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,6137,53325,3723,11657,12716,8957,6401,257,6099,4586,3577,254,14008,4703,653],"class_list":["post-219333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-cnam","tag-crisis","tag-crunch","tag-driven","tag-expert","tag-liquidity","tag-news","tag-reform","tag-security","tag-social","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sweeping","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}