Although the National Health Insurance scheme is set to go ahead, researchers have been left confused by the finance minister’s budget speech.
Pravin Gordhan will address funding in his budget speech, but analysts say money is the least of the national health insurance scheme’s problems.
Without their presence South Africa’s national health insurance cannot be implemented successfully to provide quality healthcare.
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/ 7 December 2011
The ANC has slated a DA statement on the national health insurance, calling the party pretentious for saying the poor would suffer more under the NHI.
The DA has criticised the proposed National Health Insurance scheme, saying the green paper doesn’t address the major problems.
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/ 2 December 2011
With healthcare costs spiralling out of control the prognosis for South Africa’s 110 medical aid schemes hardly seems a picture of health.
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/ 20 November 2011
There is a long way to go before the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme can become a reality, Cosatu said on Saturday.
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says an audit of health facilities is well under way ahead of a plan to start National Health Insurance pilot sites.
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/ 28 October 2011
The National Health Insurance (NHI) initiative is expected to take 14 years to phase in and will cost about R500-million for the pilot stage alone.
South Africans will have to tighten their belts, knuckle down and work together if we are to weather the economic storms ahead, says Pravin Gordhan.
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/ 11 October 2011
The health department has launched a human resource plan to deal with the public sector’s severe lack of doctors and nurses.
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says private healthcare is a ‘brutal system’ because it has commercialised an essential service.
The proposed NHI scheme will not have an impact on the demand for private health cover if the quality of public healthcare remains dire.
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/ 24 September 2011
The proposed National Health Insurance has resulted in much being written about the state of the nation’s public health sector.
The Hospital Association of South Africa will urge the government to use a multi-payer system to administer national health insurance claims.
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/ 12 September 2011
An increase in the rate of Value Added Tax would be the most effective way of funding the National Health Insurance, economists say.
National Health Insurance won’t solve the core problems of the shortage of doctors and gross mismanagement of hospitals, doctors say.
The NHI could learn a thing or two from Settlers’ Hospital in Grahamstown.
Universal healthcare schemes traditionally have been met with fierce opposition.
Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi’s "to do" list is arguably the most daunting of any minister in Cabinet.
The point of the NHI is that everyone, irrespective of income, should receive good medical service.
In 2008 the South African Medical Association unanimously adopted a resolution in favour of supporting the principle of universal access to healthcare
The frenzy of public debate, suspicion and negativity across the social, economic and ideological divides that has torn South Africans apart.
The attitudes of SA’s doctors and nurses must change drastically if the public health system is to improve, says Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi.
Quiet and unassuming, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi comes across as the type of politician who just wants to get the job done.
Economists have warned that the proposed NHI scheme could push the South African economy into recession.
The long-awaited NHI policy document is available for public comment. Don’t feel like wading through the 59-page document? Read our breakdown.
South Africans will not have to make contributions to the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme — yet.
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The NHI will be funded by contributions by those who earn above a certain level, over and above normal tax contributions, the health minister says.
The ANC Youth League has highlighted the cost of healthcare in the wake of Cabinet’s approval that the NHI green paper be released for public comment.
<strong>Mia Malan</strong> raises some of the most frequently asked questions about the intended national health insurance.