The Portfolio Committee on Social Development wants to have a meeting with the National Treasury and the Department of Public Works as to why a drug treatment centre in the Free State has not been completed. In a statement the committee said the facility has been under construction for three years without any progress. This..
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More ‘money wasted’ and there are lots of concerns over incomplete Free State drug treatment centre
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The National Health Insurance (NHI): Who’s in, who’s out and how much will it cost
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The NHI was the centre of this weekend’s presidential health summit. Now the pressure is mounting for Treasury to figure out how to fund it.
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Medical tax credits to go?
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There has been talk for some time now about the National Health Insurance (NHI) and how it will be funded. In his Budget Speech in February 2017, former finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, alluded to an adjustment to medical tax credits to partly fund the system. “The rationale behind replacing the tax deduction system with the..
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