Health Market Inquiry
The Market Inquiry into the Private Health Care Sector is an investigation conducted by South Africa’s Competition Commission because of concerns of high prices in private health care and the general state of competition in this sector. Click here to read more on the Market Inquiry.
Health Market Inquiry News
TAC and SECTION27 welcome Health Market Inquiry Final Report
Johannesburg, 30 September 2019 – SECTION27 and the Treatment Action Campaign welcome the publishing of the final report of the…
Public to pay the price for further delays in Health Market Inquiry
Johannesburg, 24 January 2018 – Users of private healthcare in South Africa are set to pay the price for further…
SECTION27 Submission on the Health Market Inquiry’s Provisional Report
As an organisation that acts in the public interest, we are concerned about equitable access to health care services in…
Ongoing delays in the Health Market Inquiry impacts right to health
The findings and recommendations of the HMI are critical to the public debate on the National Health Insurance and the Medical Schemes Bills, and thus it is critical that these findings are made public as a matter of urgency.
HMI will not consider OECD study
The study was roundly criticised by the South African hospital groups and funders such as Discovery Health, particularly on the grounds of what were described as technical and methodological flaws. Discovery, Mediclinic and Netcare made further written submissions to the HMI, criticising the study and its conclusions.
Health Market Inquiry timetable revised
The Health Market Inquiry has published its revised timetable. The inquiry will now be finalised in December 2017. There will…
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