Government Health Care

The saying, “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it” is not one that can be applied to SA education and healthcare. Much of the state’s provision of healthcare and education is broken and government, with ...

The new U.S. health reform law won't help contain health costs, as the U.S. president so often claimed while lobbying for passage of his reform package. Instead, it will exacerbate them. Indeed, researchers estimate that ...

The prevailing assumption in Canadian drug policy is that without government intervention, the market will fail to achieve certain socially desirable outcomes, one of which is affordable access to prescription drugs, say Brett Skinner and ...

National health reform is designed to reduce the number of uninsured adults. Currently, many uninsured Americans receive care at safety-net health care providers such as community health centers (CHCs) or safety-net hospitals. This project examined ...

Reinforced by decades of Supreme Court decisions that have gutted the Framers' original conception of limited government, the Obama administration has embraced an unprecedented expansion of centralised control. A new study by Robert A. Levy, ...

According to Deloitte consulting services, 875,000 Americans were medical tourists in 2010, travelling outside U.S. borders to receive health care: dental work, elective hip replacements, even bypass surgery, says Manoj Jain, an adjunct assistant professor ...

The Fraser Institute's 20th annual waiting list survey finds that province-wide wait times for surgical and other therapeutic treatments in Canada have increased in 2010:

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In the SA market, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection lasts for a maximum of 20 years but the registration process consumes a significant portion of the time period allowed to recoup costs due to the ...

Dispensing fees, which stipulate the maximum price that pharmacists are allowed to charge for medicines, have been a bone of contention since the regulations were first proposed in January 2004, when the maximum price was ...

Blame for increases in health care costs should be placed on the system the government has promoted, says Investor's Business Daily (IBD).

Namibia is a party to the Stockholm Convention, which laudably seeks to remove harmful pollutants from the environment. As DDT is essential for malaria control, it is the only chemical classified as a "persistent organic ...

One of the great myths about American society is that our lack of a "universal" health plan harms our competitiveness, says John R. Graham, director of health care studies at the Pacific Research Institute and ...

The traditional model of doctors hanging up their own shingles is fading fast, as more go to work directly for hospitals that are building themselves into consolidated health care providers, says the Wall Street Journal.

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One of the most difficult economic concepts to grasp is that we live in a world of limited resources. For better or for worse, scarcity forces us to choose from among our many wants, says ...

When President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) he wiped out $53 trillion of unfunded U.S. government liability. With the stroke of a pen, more than 60 per cent of Medicare's ...

Soccer World Cup fans and other visitors to South Africa can relax.

Although many perceive Africa as a place of wars and deadly diseases, thanks to great malaria ...

A proposal to establish a state-run company to locally manufacture pharmaceuticals may, at first, sound appealing. After all, local production of pharmaceuticals would provide local jobs, increase expertise, cut dependence on foreign suppliers and reduce ...

Gary Becker, Nobel laureate in economics, says that while America’s health system needs some reform, Obama's health-care legislation was “a bad bill.” Becker says it fails to address any of the real problems and merely ...

Remember Cuba's vaunted medical missionaries -- those who treated the poor abroad for nothing, supposedly out of selfless motives?  A lawsuit shows they were nothing but a communist slave racket.  It ought to bear a ...

The reality of life on our planet is that resources are limited but the wants of people virtually unlimited. Because we cannot have as much of everything as we would like, we are forced to ...

Recently the Department of Health suggested that the government would like to enact laws to introduce a National Health Insurance as early as April next year. An NHI-style system will completely alter SA’s healthcare industry ...

Throughout South Africa there is a cry for improved public health care services. The government is proposing NHI to meet this demand. However, this need will not be fulfilled until it is recognised that the ...

In commenting on proposals for reforming US healthcare, satirist PJ O’ Rourke said, “If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free!” If that statement is true ...

Government-run health care in Great Britain has imposed huge costs on patients and businesses by denying treatments and medications, despite the fact that the National Health System (NHS) ran a $4.67 ...

After decades of neglect, the provision of effective healthcare is becoming one of the biggest concerns in Africa. Both foreign donors and African governments are ...

Canada spends more on health care than any industrialised nation except Iceland and Switzerland yet ranks near the bottom in terms of access to physicians and new medical technology, according ...

At a meeting in Johannesburg in April, African Ministers of Health endorsed the African Union’s plan to eliminate malaria from the continent. Subsequently, at a malaria ...

Government mismanagement of Social Insurance Numbers costing Canadians as much as $2.4 billion yearly 

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The world is poised to add another disease to the list of those that will no longer threaten humans: polio, says U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Julie Gerberding.

So far, the world ...

(Bureaucrats not being bureaucratic with themselves)

Half of the local water-service authorities in Mpumalanga believe they comply with government standards for drinking-water quality, but only a quarter of them actually monitor it, according to an unpublished ...

Germany's health-care scheme, like the rest of its welfare system, dates back to the Iron Chancellor. Bismarck's original idea was to provide a safety net for the poorest of the poor. Now, 120 years later, ...

In 1993, when the Clintons were in the White House, Germany's health-care system was hailed as a model for how to remake the American way of providing insurance coverage. It consisted then, and still consists ...

The Health Sector Charter originally proposed by the Department of Health (DOH) failed to grasp the opportunity to empower the large number of employees in the public sector. If press reports are correct, this situation ...