Health Market Inquiry: final findings and recommendations report

The Competition Commission's Health Market Inquiry: final findings and recommendations report finds that the South African private healthcare market "is characterised by high and rising costs of healthcare and medical scheme cover, and significant overutilization without stakeholders having been able to demonstrate associated improvements in health outcomes. The market is characterised by highly concentrated funders and facilities markets, disempowered and uninformed consumers, a general absence of value-based purchasing, practitioners who are subject to little regulation and failures of accountability at many levels."