South Africa is bracing for a face-off between the government and private insurers over its fractured healthcare market. The government wants to bring all South Africans under a universal health insurance scheme, but the policy has suffered numerous delays. Now private insurers want to release their own rival policies, but this calls for a change of law. Healthcare Nova spoke to Dr Michael Thiede, founder of Scenarium Group, a healthcare and social protection policy consultancy.
January 8, 2015