This document provides a comment on the proposed Charter. The comment is not intended to cover the full spectrum of matters dealt with in the Charter, but rather concentrates on questioning and analysing selected items and their possible consequences for health care in South Africa. Many of the most fundamental difficulties with the proposed Charter have more to do with the harm it will do to South Africa’s people, especially the poorest and most vulnerable of them, than with the interests of the affected health-sector firms.
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