Approval by the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) of the controversial National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill continued to draw fire on Thursday with a growing number of organisations saying they would petition the president to send the legislation back to parliament. The National Assembly spent three-and-a-half years considering the bill, but the NCOP dedicated only six months to it and made no amendments to the draft legislation. Parliament is now expected to send the bill to President Ramaphosa, who can either sign it into law, or refer it back to parliament on legal grounds or technical grounds, or refer it to the Constitutional Court to gauge its constitutionality.