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Medical aid schemes, medical insurance and the low-cost benefit option I – Current status

Part 1 in this series explores the manner in which the Council for Medical Schemes has dealt with Low-Cost Benefit Options especially in light of the pending ...

Medical aid schemes, medical insurance and the low-cost benefit option II – Where we need to go

Part 2 in this series will look at the work done on the reform of prescribed minimum benefits and its implications for National Health Insurance.

This brief aims to explain the key differences between medical schemes and health insurance and why demarcation between the two is important. Medical schemes, ...

Mental Health I - Legal and policy framework

Part 1 explores the present legal instruments designed to ensure that all those who require it will have access to mental health care. The brief further ...

Mental Health II - National Health Insurance

Part 2 will consider the content of the National Health Insurance Bill as well as possible implications that it may have on the state of mental health care.

This Brief looks at the developments in the NHI White Paper and the effect on the Private Sector with such proposals

This brief is the first of two. It assesses the extent to which government thinking has progressed on the health system. The second will consider whether ...

This brief is the second of two. The first brief assesses the extent to which government thinking has progressed on the funding of the health system. This ...

Occupational Health And Safety And Fund Payments For Treatment Of Injury And Disease - What Do We Know?

This is the first of a four brief series on health expenditure in the public and private sectors. It discusses commonly ignored components of health ...

Output, Employment, The Minimum Wage And Covid-19

This brief advances an explanation of the divergence between the growth of output and the growth of employment, between the first quarter of 2018 and the first ...