An effective healthcare system will free up donor money for more desperate countries.
NHI details are not clear but it is certain that the priveged few will have to do with less.
Experts say the National Health Insurance scheme could benefit rich and poor, with positive broader outcomes.
Its health system is comparable to the best in the world, achieved at a fraction of the cost of others.
Healthcare that is accessible to all is the foundation on which an equitable and efficient system must be built.
Mia Malan reports on the challenges of involving medical schemes in the administration of the National Health Insurance scheme.
GPs with their own practices are interested in working for the NHI scheme – with caveats.
In the first of a two-part series about the NHI, Mia Malan reports on state plans to change the rigid reimbursement formula for private doctors.
What, if anything, does the private healthcare sector have to offer the rural poor?
An industry-wide probe into private healthcare seems likely, but stakeholders fear a witch hunt.
The establishment of a health promotion body in SA would save lives – and billions of rands.
Rural areas have always been at the bottom of the list when it comes to healthcare and expenditure.
Private doctors have accused the health minister and the Health Professions Council of South Africa of a having a "hidden agenda"
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has been on a long-overdue mission to transform SA’s health system since he took office more than three years ago.
The National Health Insurance could be vital in comprehensively improving women’s health, but only if it is designed to do so from the outset.
Although the National Health Insurance scheme is set to go ahead, researchers have been left confused by the finance minister’s budget speech.
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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.
The proposed NHI scheme will not have an impact on the demand for private health cover if the quality of public healthcare remains dire.
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.
This week the Mail &Guardian reports on another attempt to stitch up a tender for government property
South Africans will not have to make contributions to the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme — yet.
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.
<strong>Mia Malan</strong> raises some of the most frequently asked questions about the intended national health insurance.
An observation made by many is that government hospitals need to function better for the NHI scheme to work.