The disruptive, Johannesburg-based inventor, Dr Danny Meyersfeld, has a PhD in Molecular Biology. He tweaked existing high-tech identification of genetic variations in individual human beings to make revolutionary preventative healthcare available to ordinary GP’s and their patients.
The imposition of a sugar tax introduces a mixed bag of arguments. Whether a sugar tax is the way to go at this stage is, at best, an uneasy argument.
Anthea Jeffery says no health care service can be free and the overall costs of implementing the proposed National Health Insurance will undoubtedly be high.
Anthea Jeffery says the proponents of the NHI are silent about the size of the bureaucracy required, how much it will cost and how inefficient it might be.
There are few industries that get people as worked up, or that require as much regulation, care, and clever policy-making as healthcare. The healthcare-related problems facing countries around the world are similar – costs are ever-rising, quality is erratic, outcomes are hard to define, and people have strong feelings about all the issues. In this … Read more