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The health department will not buy some medicine for cancer and rare diseases as they are not ‘essential’ but there are legal ways to get drugs unavailable here

Four factors blocking medicines being manufactured in Africa

Setting up a continent-wide medicine regulator could be crucial to getting Africa’s people the treatments and Covid vaccines they need. Here’s why more countries need to put…

A healthcare worker holds an injection syringe of the phase 3 vaccine trial, developed against the novel coronavirus pandemic by the US Pfizer and German BioNTech company, at the Ankara University Ibni Sina Hospital in Ankara, Turkey on October 27, 2020. (Photo by Dogukan Keskinkilic/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

This is how medical aid schemes will help to fund SA’s vaccines

Medical aid schemes and businesses will help the government with the cost of acquiring enough vaccines for the South African population to achieve herd immunity

Families await medical treatment outside the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. Ayushman Bharat, a free state insurance scheme, aims to ease the burden of medical costs for India’s poor. (Amrit Dhillon)

‘It’s a godsend’: the healthcare scheme bringing hope to India’s sick

In a country where treatment can cost two years’ wages, a new project could mean free medical care for 500 million people.

Momentum advised that if a client was not aware of a medical condition prior to the commencement of their policy, it is not viewed as non-disclosure.

Insurance payments demand clients’ honesty

Momentum found itself in consumers’ crosshairs this week after it declined to pay out the death benefit cover

‘This payout will be fully funded from Momentum’s profits and not from our clients’ premiums,’ the insurer said in a statement released on Tuesday.

Momentum changes tune: Pays out death benefit to widow

Momentum has created a policy to ‘pay out an amount equal to the death benefit in the case of violent crime, regardless of previous medical history’

Momentum advised that if a client was not aware of a medical condition prior to the commencement of their policy, it is not viewed as non-disclosure.

Momentum sticks to its guns despite outrage over R2.4m life policy claim

The insurance group rejected Nathan Ganas’s policy claim after it was discovered he had high blood sugar levels

SA’s health insurers gird their loins

New draft regulations may limit products that fill a gap for those unable to afford medical aid.

The outcome of the ANC’s long-awaited KwaZulu-Natal conference was a win for the Thuma Mina crowd. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Insurance group MMI profit increases 12% on policy sales

MMI Holdings, South Africa’s third-largest insurer, said fiscal full-year profit climbed 12% after selling more policies and integrating units.

Going public: A lesson from India

Going public: A lesson from India

Despite middle-class misgivings, South Africa’s universal healthcare plan puts us well ahead of the Asian powerhouse.

Obama’s health insurance reforms clear first hurdle

House of Representatives passes Bill by a slim margin that would increase health insurance to 96% of Americans.

Key Senate panel gears up for US healthcare vote

A key US congressional panel was set to cast judgement on healthcare reform on Tuesday.

National health insurance on the cards, says Zuma

The African National Congress plans to introduce national health insurance in its next term in government, party president Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday.

Selecting the right medical scheme

Although a high level of savings may look good on paper, you need to understand what exactly will be paid out of savings and what out of risk.

DA calls for national health-insurance plan to be halted

No national health insurance until the health minister gets the basics of healthcare delivery in public hospitals and clinics right, says the DA.