Author: Arvitha
Published:
26
May
2016
This Brief does a comparison between the National Health Insurance (NHI) White Paper and the NHI Green Paper to ascertain differences, advancements and omissions.
Briefs
Health
Author: Matthew Kruger
Published:
24
May
2016
For some time now our public discourse has been dominated by public intellectuals and other commentators whose opinions are characterised by a shrill, self-righteous certainty. In this brief, Matthew Kruger reflects on these issues, pleading for those who shape public debate to write with the kind of self-reflective humility that is possessed by those who are aware of their own limitations—who are aware of the possibility that they might be wrong.
Briefs
Social Justice
Author: Anele Mtwesi
Published:
24
May
2016
Anele Mtwesi looks at the basics needed to deliver equal opportunity with respect to education.
Education
Briefs
Protecting Human Rights
Securing Accountability
Author: Kimera Chetty
Published:
18
May
2016
In the concluding brief of this series, Kimera Chetty considers both the propriety and benefits of regulation over prohibition with regards marijuana in South Africa.
Crime
Briefs
Author: Andrew Barlow
Published:
17
May
2016
Andrew Barlow looks at Brazil's wildly successful Family Health Strategy programme, and how a similar initiative could be rolled out here in South Africa.
Briefs
Health
Author: Charles Simkins
Published:
12
May
2016
Charles Simkins reviews the previous four briefs, pulling together themes and proposing how the government could affect genuinely meaningful change to South Africa's public health system.
Briefs
Health
Author: Andrew Barlow
Published:
12
May
2016
The third brief in this series dealt with the two-tier systems used to finance UHC by Israel and the Netherlands. This brief now turns to the single payer system used by Canada.
Briefs
Health
Author: Andrew Barlow
Published:
11
May
2016
The second brief in this series dealt with the insurance mandate systems used by Austria and Germany to finance UHC. This brief reviews the two tier systems of Israel and the Netherlands. Two-tier health care is so named because it involves a publically funded basic health package being provided, with a secondary private tier of additional – and often better quality – services available for those who can afford it.
Briefs
Health
