Calvin Majora

@TungamiraiGwat1 @baba_nyenyedzi These guys are not in the field if they had wanted proper discussion they shld have called the affected parties. The MAS have destroyed institutions through non payment

@baba_nyenyedzi I think you have it wrong, what medical aids have been doing is illegal. They have deliberately been directing patients to their facilities whilst intentionally not paying claims from private providers on time.

The Government of Zimbabwe intends to introduce a Statutory Instrument prohibiting medical aid societies from owning medical service providers such as clinics and pharmacies. Beyond being anti “open for business,” this move risks decimating the medical insurance sector in the same way policy and monetary instability destroyed confidence in the pension sector. The real problem is not vertical integration by medical aid societies. The real problem is hyperinflation, currency instability and the collapse of confidence in our monetary system. Medical insurance has simply found a way to work around that dysfunction. The proposed SI will likely lead to a sharp increase in medical fees and it is customers who will suffer most. The doctors and pharmacists lobbying for this measure are being anti-business and ultimately, acting against their own long-term interests. A better response would be for them to come together and establish medical aid societies that can rival the existing players. If we destroy medical aid societies, customers will not suddenly rush to private doctors and pharmacies. Many will simply stop using formal doctors and pharmacies altogether, as we have seen in parts of Africa where medical aid systems collapsed.

@1changamire The regulated fees forum has been there that’s why Afdis exist. It used to work till some MAS got powerful that they started paying their own tarriffs, those who support this don’t understand what it has done to the Healthcare sector

Tinashe, the monetary instability argument explains how vertical integration emerged in Zimbabwe's medical aid sector. It does NOT justify leaving it in place. Do you not think that a practice that takes root during a crisis still requires justification on its own terms? It can argued and rightly so that when the same entity owns the facility you are sent to, decides whether your claim is valid, and runs the pharmacy that does your prescription, every financial incentive points inward toward 1) in-house referrals regardless of clinical appropriateness, 2) toward suppressed reimbursement rates for independent providers, and 3) toward pricing that members have no independent basis to interrogate. This is what the educated ones call vertical foreclosure and its consistent effect is to A) reduce competition, B) raise long term costs, and C) concentrate market power in ways that outlast whatever crisis originally justified them. The United States, which has permitted this model to develop further than almost any comparable country, is now actively trying to reverse it. Bipartisan legislation, the Break Up Big Medicine Act, proposes to prohibit parent companies from simultaneously owning insurers and providers, citing structural conflicts of interest that steer business toward affiliates while driving up costs. A separate bill, the Patients Over Profit Act, proposes an outright ban on common ownership between health insurers and outpatient provider entities. The Department of Health and Human Services launched an audit of vertically integrated Medicare Part D sponsors in 2024, finding that owning multiple links in the supply chain creates incentives to inflate drug prices. The country that built the model is now legislating against it. Zimbabwe does not need to import that problem before recognising it. If societies have been paying their own clinics below market rates while charging members full premiums, independent providers will reprice when that pressure lifts. That is an argument for accompanying the SI with a regulated fee framework and transparent claims processing, not an argument against separation. The evidence runs against your reading. If and when the insurer's balance sheet collapses, the clinic goes with it. In a decoupled system, the clinic outlives the insurer. The stability argument points toward separation. If the doctors and pharmacists (who deal with the patients) are identifying a monopsony problem. The proposal to simply form rival societies ignores that the integrated model is precisely what makes new entry difficult. A new society would need to build or acquire facilities just to compete on comparable terms. The government's instrument may be bluntly drafted, and transition arrangements matter. Those are legitimate concerns about implementation. They are not a case for leaving a structural conflict of interest intact simply because monetary policy is broken.

@maguranyanga @Jamwanda2 @baba_nyenyedzi On this I am with the govt, MAS have no business offering the service

@Jamwanda2 @baba_nyenyedzi Finish🫵🏾 I actually was looking for your comment sir🤸🏽‍♂️🤣

#ZimbabweansRelocatingFromSouthAfrica I know there are thousands of Zimbabweans who doesn’t have papers in South Africa who are being affected by the tightening immigration policies in South Africa especially due to the following - People will no longer be able to extend their days past 90 days per year. - The proposed 10 000 labour inspectors who will be going to companies to check on immigration statutes of foreign workers among other things. - The ongoing immigration raids inland, a lot of people are being arrested and being deported. - A lot of housing estates have been preventing undocumented people from entering their premises and this affects their earning potentials as a lot of these migrants are self employed as builders, plumbers, painters, gardeners, domestic workers etc - There has been warnings by police to landlords against providing accommodation to illegal migrants. A lot of people will be going back home, there is need for assistance from the Zimbabwean authorities. A lot of these people have their vehicles older than 10 years and their old furniture they are currently using in South Africa. They can’t utilise the returning resident provision because they were not legal in South Africa and a lot of them have not registered for tax purposes. It is my humble suggestion that the government of Zimbabwe allow these citizens to bring in their assets as this will help them to resettle back into the Zimbabwean society. If they are forced to leave their assets in South Africa it will cause a lot of poverty among the returnees. @nickmangwana @Jamwanda2

@AfricaViewFacts @Jamwanda2 still believes it’s not necessary to have a refinery in Zim

Uganda 🇺🇬 and Kenya 🇰🇪 are in discussions with Aliko Dangote to build a major oil refinery in Tanzania 🇹🇿. The project is planned for Tanga and aims to reduce East Africa’s reliance on fuel imports from the Middle East. It would process crude from regional producers, including Uganda, and supply countries across the East African Community. Talks are active, with Presidents Ruto and Museveni involved.

@AmaniKweli @nickmangwana I am telling you from a informed position, the reason why that was not enforced was because of Psmas/psmi

@CalvinMajora @nickmangwana But he is saying, they are coming up with an SI. Why would they do that if there is an actual Law?

We are coming up with a Statutory Instrument to stop Medical Aids from also providing services, as there is a serious conflict of interest threatening the existence of independent medical practice in Zimbabwe. Being the insurer and the provider has resulted in numerous challenges that we seek to correct. Some medical aids are fighting this SI by hook and crook because they have been benefitting from the clear conflict of interest and anti-competitive nature of this arrangement. We notice that the state media seems to have been dragged into this and have not even cared to hear the Govt’s side. We are very disappointed to say the least. Furthermore, on the question of authorship: an opinion must have an author. How can we have an opinion that is said to be done by a "correspondent"? Whose opinion is that? That would make readers believe it is the paper's opinion or a corporate-sponsored opinion. State Media has a responsibility to refuse to publish such. When a "correspondent" is listed instead of a named individual, the reader cannot assess bias, motive, or accountability. Is it the newspaper speaking? A hired public relations firm? An anonymous corporate interest? In matters of public health policy, where billions of dollars and the viability of independent medical practice hang in the balance, anonymity is unacceptable. State Media, in particular, has a duty to model transparency. Publishing unattributed opinions as if they were news or editorial consensus deceives the public and undermines trust. If an opinion is worth publishing, it is worth signing. Govt insists on this principle, and State Media should refuse to publish any opinion piece that hides behind the vague label of "correspondent." heraldonline.co.zw/opinion-zimbab…

@nickmangwana Those mayoral robes are hideous

City of Bulawayo Public Sector – Best Local Government Award #ZITF2026

@munyaradzimete @nickmangwana Unfortunately the act that governs MAS makes the offering of services illegal, all mas know this

@nickmangwana You don't need SI to solve this problem ,create a world class public health delivery system and charge competitive rates at gvt institution . All these unscrupulous schemes will be out of business.

@AmaniKweli @nickmangwana The law not allowing medical aids into service has always been there

@nickmangwana Issues of policy should be left to technocrats and not politicians. That’s why the 2nd Deception is always issuing SIs, there is no time to research issues. Instead of banning, rather, set-up an Independent Health Regulator, give teeth to IPEC and Comp & Tariffs Commission.

@nickmangwana @Alois1026 This doesn’t need a new law it’s just needs the law implemented. The conflict & situation was allowed to go on because govt through Psmas was flouting this law given that Psmi was one of the biggest beneficiaries of this hence GOZ looked aside

@nickmangwana @Alois1026 But @nickmangwana the law has always been clear on this. On the SI gor setting up medical aid it clearly outlines medical aid are not allowed to provide medical services. This has been raised in the past meetings especially by PHAZ members. The law just needs to be implemented

@bla_bidza @TembaMliswa They pretend that doctors, teachers, police etc are adequately compensated they get car & housing loans from govt which no other profession in Zim receives

Until MPs stick to their families and a reasonable, affordable number of children (not 20) with dozens of small houses, they should be content with what they get paid in commensurate with their service. They are legislators, not money launderers. Temba, you represent the grotesque side of Zimbabwean politics.

Until legislators begin to get paid according to the regional and continental standards they will remain a vulnerable arm of Gvt susceptible to being compromised.

@TembaMliswa What of nurses, doctors, teachers, police who then gives them govt loans that they won’t pay back, car loans etc

@ChumaSamk91253 @HeraldZimbabwe Exactly

@HeraldZimbabwe I don't get it ZRP. Why warn people and the thieves in the same thread. Just post non uniformed CIDs and snare these criminals

The Officer-in-Charge of ZRP Matapi, Chief Inspector Friday Sibanda, has warned the general public not to walk alone at night at Mupedzanhamo flyover as there are robbers who patrol the area. 📹 : Arron Nyamayaro

@HeraldZimbabwe Why can’t they set traps for the robbers. What are they doing about the hotspots as police, have they considered working hand in hand with city council etc this is not good enough for police, where is the police tha sets traps for hotspots!

@loiceMututuvar1 You will have to approach the court, if you have no funds you can consider go to the nearest court and asking for where you can get free legal advice in your area, usually there are some lawyers who can be able to help pro bono on cases like yours.

@loiceMututuvar1 Make an application to the High Court brother All the best

@OkaPhusisa Population is 1biliion economies of scale are massive

A Zimbabwean vlogger was shocked to find a full live chicken selling for about US$2 in India. In Zimbabwe, some of the cheapest chickens are around US$6, while even a day-old chick can cost roughly US$1. That price gap points to a deeper competitiveness problem: input costs, feed prices, energy, transport, finance, and market inefficiencies make local production expensive. If a chick starts at half the price of a mature bird elsewhere, it signals structural costs that make it hard for Zimbabwean producers to compete globally.

@CrimeWatchZW Koshesai background checks with police the costs are really affordable in the future

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