The National Health Insurance Bill III: Governance and the State’s ability to manage the envisaged NHI

This brief is one of a series of four briefs on the National Health Insurance Bill (“NHI”). Their content is based on the submission which the HSF made to ...

The National Health Insurance Bill IV: Summary of the HSF’s conclusions on the Bill

This brief is one of a series of four briefs on the National Health Insurance Bill (“NHI”). Their content is based on the submission which the HSF made to ...

Emerging Contaminants - Crisis Or Manageable Risk?

At present the global scientific community is grappling with the question of whether emerging contaminants in water pose any substantial health risks to ...

A Life Of Freedom: Mandatory vaccines and mocking the dead

Whatever the cold wisdom of a policy mandating vaccines, Matthew Kruger argues in this brief, it is a shared narcissistic disgust of others that motivates the ...

Occupational Health And Safety And Fund Payments For Treatment Of Injury And Disease - What Do We Know?

This is the first of a four brief series on health expenditure in the public and private sectors. It discusses commonly ignored components of health ...

Local Government Impact On Health - What Do We Know?

This is the second of a four brief series on health expenditure in the public and private sectors. The first brief discusses commonly ignored components of ...

Health Expenditure In The 2019/20 Financial Year

This is the third of a four brief series on health expenditure in the public and private sectors. The first brief deals with commonly ignored components of ...

How Will The Health System Cope Over The Next Four Years?

This is the fourth of a four brief series on health expenditure in the public and private sectors. The first brief deals with commonly ignored components of ...

Who decides on Vaccine Mandates?

This brief reviews the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States of America in National Federation of Independent Business et al v Department of ...

Medical aid schemes, medical insurance and the low-cost benefit option II – Where we need to go

Part 2 in this series will look at the work done on the reform of prescribed minimum benefits and its implications for National Health Insurance.