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Media - Archive

• Cabinet set to approve NHI policy document (PDF)
• Dose of reality (PDF)
• 129 Swine flu cases reported in Gauteng (PDF)
• A positive attitude will make it easier to adjust to the NHI (PDF)
• Infrastructure must be in place for NHI (PDF)
• Motsoaledi calls those opposed to NHI 'greedy' (PDF)
• New regulations to fix cancer data chaos (PDF)
• Pharmaceutical sector should be concerned about the NHI (PDF)
• Will the NHI benefit all (PDF)
• Release of Green Paper on National Health Insurance (PDF)
• NHI Policy Paper (PDF)
• NHI poses fiscal risk (PDF)
• Plans to build elite hospital slammed (PDF)
• Finance body warns NHI will knock GDP (PDF)
• Experts cast doubt on likelihood of NHI (PDF)
• NHI Report - September 2010 (PDF)
• Key Proposals for a National Health Insurance (PDF)
• Keep medical schemes healthy while we wait for the NHI (PDF)
• Countdown begins for NHI's implementation (PDF)
• NHI plan will double taxes - economist (PDF)
• Beware dramatic effect of NHI (PDF)
• ANC 'has wrong' diagnosis of SA's healthcare problems (PDF)
• Numbers on NHI spending are 'out of this world' (PDF)
• NHI 'won't cure' the ills that plague our healthcare system (PDF)
• KPMG raises pros and cons of state's NHI plan (PDF)
• Netcare set to benefit from NHI scheme (PDF)
• Health budget boost for NHI (PDF)
• DA to make proposals on shortage of doctors (PDF)
• NHI gets a boost from Obama's health reforms (PDF)
• Money for NHI will be found: Gordhan (PDF)
• Health sector grapples with NHI concerns (PDF)
• Medical aid tax deductions are not subsidies! (PDF)
• No taxes yet to fund national health cover (PDF)
• Gordhan downplays NHI tax burden (PDF)
• The Road to National Health Insurance (PDF)
• Pre-NHI workshops to take SA's pulse (PDF)
• New health insurance to cost taxpayers (PDF)
• A starry-eyed realist in the National Health Insurance scheme engine room (PDF)
• Long corridor to care (PDF)
• Great cost but little benefit, even to state patients (PDF)
• NHI key to tackling SA's health crisis (PDF)
• How NHI will affect you (PDF)
• Government to address critical cost drivers (PDF)
• Hasa plots its participation in NHI (PDF)
• Flurry over 2012 NHI tax remark (PDF)
• NHI scheme needs public diagnosis (PDF)
• Compliance body to inspect health institutions (PDF)
• ANC figures on number of doctors for NHI 'distorted' (PDF)
• NHI is what the doctor ordered (PDF)
• NHI is what the doctor ordered (PDF)
• Raising taxes to pay for NHI 'premature' (PDF)
• ANC figures on number of doctors for NHI 'distorted' (PDF)
• Keeping up Momentum (PDF)
• Working together to make the NHI succeed (PDF)
• NHI: the right thing to shoot for (PDF)
• Universal health coverage in SA viable (PDF)
• Plea for details of health insurance plan (PDF)
• NHI document needed soon (PDF)
• 'Golden goose' clucks NHI away (PDF)
• State plans huge loans to pay for health scheme (PDF)
• No escape from NHI cost (PDF)
• Billions to be pumped into hospitals (PDF)
• NHI document is 'ANC view' (PDF)
• 'Fix health system first' (PDF)
• National Health Insanity beckons (PDF)
• NHI to negatively affect middle-class (PDF)
• ANC's NHI raises dilemma for healthcare costs (PDF)
• An NHI to really reverse the rot (PDF)
• Health insurance tax bombshell (PDF)
• Controversial new health insurance system 'to be phased in from 2012' (PDF)
• ANC unveils 'pragmatic' national health plan (PDF)
• ANC aims to implement NHI in 2012 (PDF)
• Insurance plan must be backed up by better facilities and more staff (PDF)
• Cosatu welcomes NHI timeframe (PDF)
• NHI won't change dual system (PDF)
• Declining rate of SA doctors bodes ill for NHI (PDF)
• Health sector grapples with NHI concerns (PDF)
• US employees pay more for health insurance while wages remain stagnant (PDF)
• Policy restrictions for certain medications lead to decreased drug use and substantial savings (PDF)
• Anger at NHI secrecy (PDF)
• Payment and integration pains diagnosed for NHI (PDF)
• SAIRR warns on health insurance (PDF)
• All players must embrace NHI (PDF)
• SA lacks funds for universal NHI (PDF)
• Primary care is vital for health reform (PDF)
• Keeping healthcare costs under control (PDF)
• Pro-rich health services slated (PDF)
• Actuaries develop model to estimate how much national health insurance will cost (PDF)
• Rhetoric doesn't advance cause of NHI (PDF)
• UK may invest in SA healthcare (PDF)
• Former medicines chief tipped to head Health Department (PDF)
• NHI committee slams estimate (PDF)
• On the mend, perhaps (PDF)
• Motsoaledi's plan to stitch up healthcare (PDF)
• Come what may ... South Africa will get a National Health Insurance scheme (PDF)
• Health plan 'on course' (PDF)
• Merger benefits scheme members (PDF)
• An unworkable solution (PDF)
• Shot in the arm for HIV/AIDS treatment and for public-private partnerships (PDF)
• NHI sceptics realistic, not afraid of change (PDF)
• No place to skimp (PDF)
• Bid to compel health department to publish a cost-based tariff list for specialists (PDF)
• ANC using NHI for 'populist gain' - 31/01/2010 (PDF)
• Portfolio committee marks four key health areas - 02/02/2010 (PDF)
• NHI could cripple private sector - 26/01/2010 (PDF)
• Body to drive talks on health insurance scheme 'finalised' - 05/11/2009 (PDF)
• Unity is our best shot at a healthy future for all - 22/11/2009 (PDF)
• NHI is a necessity - 23/11/2009 (PDF)
• SA insurer on a voyage of Discovery in China
• NHI: The dawn of a new era?
• Discovery makes early move into China
• NHI scheme on hold? (PDF)
• NHI no silver bullet for system (PDF)
• NHI needs longer phase-in period
• Health Matters In-depth - 23-10-2009 (2) (PDF)
• Health Matters In-depth - 23-10-2009 (1) (PDF)
• Health Matters In-depth - 22-10-2009 (PDF)
• Key Features of the Current NHI Proposal (PDF)
• Health Matters In-depth - 01/10/09 (5) (PDF)
• Health Matters In-depth - 01/10/09 (4) (PDF)
• Health Matters In-depth - 01/10/09 (3) (PDF)
• Health Matters In-depth - 01/10/09 (2) (PDF)
• Health Matters In-depth - 01/10/09 (1) (PDF)
• Health Matters In-depth - 09/10/09 (PDF)
• Health Matters In-depth - 05/10/09 (PDF)
• Government's NHI to reduce non-healthcare spending
• Africa not significant in Discovery's future
• Will draft be good for health?
• Challenges of NHI can be met
• Health Minister tables plans for committee to advise him on NHI
• Proposed national health insurance system is no magic quick fix
• Health Matters In-depth - 11/09/09 (PDF)
• Bonitas opposes single-payer NHI system
• Opposing opinion will add quality to NHI debate
• NHI will rely on income tax to succeed
• Discovery prepares for NHI
• Private healthcare 'likely to implode'
• State sets a tight deadline
• Crude NHI plan threatens to make a bad situation worse
• Drug sector is NHI's latest fan
• Insurers cagey over national health insurance
• Who speaks for BHF
• Health Matters In-depth - 04/09/09 (PDF)
• Health Matters In-depth - 03/09/09 (PDF)
• Health Matters In-depth - 02/09/09 (PDF)
• All players must embrace NHI
• Health Matters In-depth - 01/09/09 (PDF)
• State mum on NHI proposals
• The NHI’s building blocks
• NHI will rein in costs, says ANC - 19/08/09
• The NHI’s building blocks are in place, but we have to be certain it will work(PDF)
• Health Matters In-depth (PDF)
• Focusing on a Balance
• Misdiagnosis
• Left-hand drive
• A Heavy Load to Carry
• Grandiose ideals out of kilter with reality
• ANC adopts national health insurance policy draft
• Hijacking Private Health
• One health plan for all
• Unhealthy figures
• Health News Daily - Wednesday, 1 July 2009
• Minister announces health insurance committee - 06/06/2009 (PDF)
• Health Matters In-depth - Thursday, 18 June 2009
• Health Department to look at how to fund NHI
• Concerns raised about NHI
• NHI proposal to lift tax by R100bn
• Why do we need NHI?
• National Health Insurance Introduction for Journalists (PDF)
• Health Matters In-depth (PDF)
• Calls for debate on national health insurance