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Private Health Care Information on the latest developments in the provision of private health care.

Does the private health sector fall short?
Author: Jasson UrbachDate: 10 October 2011

Critics of private health care in SA argue that the private sector does not do enough, ...

Pharmaceutical giant helps future doctors
Author: Health24.comDate: 26 March 2010

 

Boehringer Ingelheim, a world leader in pharmaceutical research and development, launched the Boehringer Ingelheim Care Foundation in Cape Town on 19 March ...

Why SA should not nationalise its private health care
Author: Eustace DavieDate: 2 June 2009

Private financers and suppliers of health care products and services have been under siege since the adoption of the plan for a national health system; a system that appears to have as its end goal ...

Novartis helps South Africans gain access to essential medicines
Author: NovartisDate: 29 August 2008

Access ...

On whom shall South Africans depend for their health care
Author: Eustace DavieDate: 15 June 2007

Adam Smith wrote in The Wealth of Nations, published in 1776,  "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect our dinner, but ...

A dynamic health care sector for South Africa
Author: Temba A NolutshunguDate: 15 February 2007

Private healthcare service providers and manufacturers of healthcare products operate industrial enterprises. Governments should therefore treat them like any other enterprise doing any other business. No amount ...

Perpetuating the 16-84 health care fallacy
Author: Johan BiermannDate: 19 December 2006

In a recent radio interview the Minister of Finance declared that 20 per cent of the population receives private health care while the government is responsible for providing health care to the remaining 80 per ...