Archive for the ‘In the Media’ Category

There could be “major battles” when it comes to hashing out the details of SA’s proposed National Health Insurance, says Di McIntyre, a researcher at the health economics unit at UCT……Read More: http://www.iol.co.za/business/business-news/major-battles-on-cards-for-sa-s-nhi-1.1336242#.T_0zvpFXBiI

There is going to be a “serious fight to get what we want in our health system” and while the National Health Insurance (NHI) Green Paper was steering matters in the right direction health care delivery can’t go from “horrible to wonderful” overnight, health economist Professor Di McIntyre cautioned…….Read more: http://www.health-e.org.za/news/article.php?uid=20033610

I am visiting the University of Cape Town from Australia – this is the fourth consecutive year I have come to this physically beautiful city – and I see in the media recently all sorts of comments on the proposed NHI. These comments are all almost hostile. But then these comments do not come from [...]

Misinformed scaremongering seems to have been the order of the day since the release of the National Health Insurance (NHI) Green Paper. South Africans have been subjected to a barrage of reports about how the proposed NHI is unaffordable, how it will increase the cost of labour and will push the economy into recession…Read more [...]

During a four-day launch, the School of Public Health & Family Medicine (SOPH) welcomed a new partnership with the African Religious Health Assets Programme (ARHAP) – to be known as the International Religious Health Assets Programme (IRHAP). This research network works at the interface of religion and public health, to promote sustainable health among poor [...]

Healthcare is a moral obligation, October 2010 The surprise release of the ANC’s discussion document on the proposed National Health Insurance scheme has again opened up the deep and disturbing economic divisions that persist in South Africa…HEALTH-E NEWS SERVICE

Findings from the SHIELD project (the Strategies for Health Insurance for Equity in Less Developed Countries) were recently released: Report – Resource requirements of alternative health care financing reforms in South Africa. Policy brief (1) – What resources do we need for a universal health system in South Africa and what are the design implications? [...]

The ANC has decided to go ahead with the National Health Insurance with compulsory membership for everyone due to start in 2012 . Radio 702 interviewed HEU’s Prof Di McIntyre: http://www.gate5.co.za/Broadcast/tempfolder/3045044.mp3. See latest Mail & Guardian report. And tune into Radio 2000 tomorrow (23 September 2010) for a 7.25am interview with Prof McIntyre.