MEDIA ROOM: FMF’s roundtable on NHI
National Health Insurance (NHI): What won’t work and alternatives that will
The roundtable VIDEO can be viewed HERE
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Speakers and SLIDES
Chris Hattingh, Deputy Director, Free Market Foundation
– Introduction and overview
SLIDES
Mike Settas, Managing Director, Cinagi & member, FMF Health Policy Unit
– Fiscal constraints to implementing NHI and alternatives
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Patrick Bracher, Director, Norton Rose Fulbright
– Is the NHI constitutional?
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Alex van den Heever, Adjunct Professor, Wits School of Governance
– Private healthcare reform: The work was done – we need to implement it!
– Reform required for the public sector
SLIDES
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Research: An overview of South Africa’s health assets and the National Health Insurance policy
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The FMF’s alternative solutions to improved health care for all
Privatising the provision of health care – via giveaways of public hospitals to those who work in them or sales to those who wish to buy them
The SA department of health is fundamentally opposed to the private sector just ask the minister
Government the culprit behind high private healthcare prices
Financing health care for the poor – preferably via state-sponsored vouchers, which the indigent can spend where they choose
Doctor plan will create space for poor students
Encouraging more private hospitals by deregulating the industry and eliminating Certificates of Need
Patents and patent laws are not a major barrier to access to medicines
Let the private sector work
Certificates of need are a recipe for chaos
Reducing prices and increasing health care quality through increased competition Singaporeans are healthier because they are wealthier
Government regulation restricts competition in private healthcare
Paying for intervention how statutory intervention harms South African health care
Allowing the private sector to train doctors and nurses Private medical schools could solve SAs chronic doctor shortage
Education and healthcare don’t break the bits that aren’t broke
Encouraging income-producing medical tourism
Canada’s healthcare money alone does not ensure good healthcare
Africa must spurn Cubas aid offer
International benchmarks for determining the prices of medicines
Retaining skilled South Africans and attracting others by removing the limit on skilled foreign doctors German doctors working abroad
Deregulating medical schemes so they can offer their clients exactly what they want Your life at stake false assertions about hospital costs
Deregulating pharmacies Freeing the drug-market
Killer Drugs
Orphan drugs vs orphan people
Drug regulators and sub-standard treatment
Public funds perverting market for malaria drugs
Removing price controls, which send mixed messages to the industry
Doctor’s tariff guidelines are a straw man
Further health price regulation a logistical nightmare
Who is to blame for rising healthcare costs?
Speeding up registration of clinical trials Number of clinical trials declining
Giving those who pay for their own health care a tax deduction Fast food suggested target for stealth tax
Denmark introduces fat tax
Allowing low cost insurance options
Prescribed minimum benefits deny the poor access to private healthcare
Profits serve patients in need of healthcare
Prices set by state not a good idea