It can be easier for international private equity interests to buy a chain of local clinics or community labs than it is to purchase a single residential home.
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Contracting out healthcare requires state capacity and public participation.
Many studies show public funding of private health care can be more expensive and less equitable. A truly evidence-based health system would acknowledge this.
The argument that private healthcare relieves pressure on the public system is misleading. Private care profits from failures of the public system and patients’ desperation for timely treatment.
By starting their own entrepreneurial and developmental projects, First Nations are working toward economic prosperity for their communities and furthering reconciliation.
New Zealanders have, in principle, access to free healthcare. But inequality is a major issue, affecting Māori and Pasifika communities and New Zealanders living with disabilities or in poverty.
Recent Alberta legislation increasing privatization in the health sector risks undermining the public health-care system, and will likely put profits over the public interest.
Most Kenyans are able to access basic care but face the barrier of potentially catastrophic fees.
A market inquiry has looked into private health care costs in South Africa.
The bill to provide universal health care in South Africa is not the silver bullet for the challenges in the health sector.
Australia is the only country in the OECD that allows specialists complete freedom to set their own fees. This puts patients at risk – but the government can help protect them.
The government has put a lot of effort into making health care in South Africa more accessible, but the quality of the service still lags behind.
Healthcare group Circle has announced that it plans to withdraw from its contract to run Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire, three years into a deal that was supposed to last ten years. The company…
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