EDITORIAL: Zweli Mkhize on the spot over state’s role in private health
The government should implement reforms to stabilise runaway prices after the department of health neglected its oversight role
09 October 2019 - 05:10
The Competition Commission’s health market inquiry, which published its final report last week, has set out in meticulous detail what most readers of this paper instinctively know.
Patients are flummoxed by the complexity of medical schemes, specialists all want to be millionaires, and not even the dismal state of the economy seems to dampen the profit margins of JSE-listed private hospitals and medical scheme administrators...
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