LETTER: How factual are these ‘cold facts’?
What is meant by ‘medical inflation’ What basket of goods and services is used to calculate this specific inflation rate? And how and by whom are the data collected?
01 August 2019 - 05:00
"A Painful Situation" (Editor’s Note, June 27-July 3 (https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/opinion/editors-note/2019-06-27-rob-rose-discoverys-painful-situation/)) states that "the cold fact is that medical inflation in SA last year was 11% — far ahead of SA’s inflation rate of 4.5%, as well as people’s salary increases".
Apart from the fact that no source is provided for this "cold fact", a number of questions arise...
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