Dr Wizy

@legend9219k @GeneralBauer3 @drjaytee87 I think his point is medical aids are not paying the service provider the market price or they delay payments and they deliberately do so to push you to their own hospitals and pharmacies.

@GeneralBauer3 @drjaytee87 I should be asking you that question, if MSO can provide at reduced prices. Why can't the private do the same? So you want to profitieer?

REBUTTAL ON BEHALF OF PRIVATE HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS TO “THE RISKS OF FRAGMENTING HEALTHCARE SYSTEM” We, the independent private healthcare providers of Zimbabwe—doctors, specialists, pathologists, radiologists, pharmacists, private hospitals, and allied health professionals—have read the opinion piece defending vertical integration by medical aid societies (MAS). That piece attempts to draw false parallels between healthcare and other industries, cherry-picks international examples, and fundamentally misunderstands the unique nature of healthcare as a service governed by clinical ethics, not commercial logic. Below we dismantle each argument systematically, strengthen our previous submissions, and demonstrate why the proposed amendments to SI 330 of 2000 are not only justified but urgently necessary. --- 1. Healthcare is not banking, telecoms, or funeral assurance – A fatal category error The opinion argues that because Zimbabwe accepts vertical integration in funeral assurance, banking, and retail, it should also accept it in healthcare. This is a dangerous and intellectually dishonest comparison. Why healthcare is different: · Banking: You can choose a different bank if service is poor. Your life does not depend on a single transaction. · Telecoms: Dropped calls are an inconvenience, not a death sentence. · Funeral assurance: The service is delivered after death. Quality control is not a matter of life and death. · Healthcare: A delayed referral, a denied test, or a substandard facility can kill or permanently disable a patient. The stakes are incomparable. The opinion admits that healthcare is “far greater complexity” but then ignores that complexity. Healthcare involves clinical independence, informed consent, patient autonomy, and the Hippocratic Oath—none of which apply to funeral parlours. To equate the two is not just wrong; it is reckless. Our position: Vertical integration in healthcare creates a direct financial incentive for the funder to underprovide care. No other industry has that lethal potential. --- 2. International examples – Correcting the selective citation The opinion cites Kaiser Permanente (US), Singapore, the Netherlands, Germany, and the UK’s Integrated Care Systems as evidence that integration works. This is a textbook example of cherry-picking. Country/System What the opinion omits Kaiser Permanente Operates under strict non-profit status, independent physician groups, and state-level regulatory oversight that Zimbabwe lacks. Doctors are not employees of the insurance arm; they belong to separate Permanente Medical Groups with clinical autonomy. Singapore Government is the dominant funder and provider. Medical aid societies (private insurers) have minimal market share. Vertical integration is tightly regulated with mandatory Medisave accounts and price controls. Netherlands & Germany Both have separated purchasing and provision under their universal health insurance systems. Insurers cannot own hospitals. The opinion has this backwards. UK’s Integrated Care Systems These are contractual partnerships between NHS England, local authorities, and providers. The NHS is the single payer. No private medical aid society owns NHS hospitals. Again, a false parallel. The opinion’s most glaring omission: South Africa, our neighbour, prohibits medical schemes from owning healthcare facilities under Section 21(1)(b) of the Medical Schemes Act. Zimbabwe is not reinventing the wheel; we are catching up to sound regional regulation. Our position: If the opinion truly believed in international best practice, it would support prohibition. That it does not reveals its true motive: protecting MAS profit, not patients. --- 3. The “lifeline” fallacy – PSMAS proved integration kills The opinion claims medical aid-owned facilities are a “lifeline” for civil servants. The liquidation of PSMAS is the definitive rebuttal. · What happened: PSMAS diverted member contributions into artisanal gold

In these days leading up to the Solemnity of Pentecost, as we prepare to relive the mystery the miracle of the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the nascent Church, let us #PrayTogether to the Holy Spirit, Lord and Giver of life. May He grant us the gift of #ChristianUnity, bestow upon us enduring peace, and renew the face of the earth.

Psalm 121:3

Today is Ascension Day, the day Jesus Christ ascended into Heaven, 40 days after the Resurrection. For 40 days Jesus remained on Earth to prove he had truly risen from the dead. He appeared to his disciples—teaching them, strengthening their faith, and confirming that He had truly conquered death. Especially to Thomas who had to literally touch Jesus's glorified body to believe it 😂 Then, in their presence, in the Mount of Olives, after one final blessing He ascended. As He did a cloud took Him away from their sight, echoing the same divine signs seen in Exodus and at the Transfiguration. This moment was not a departure in the sense of loss, Jesus wasn't going away. He was going to the Father to reign in glory. He was enthroned at the right hand of the Father. The Ascension makes something crystal clear: Christ reigns now. He rules over Heaven and Earth. But most importantly we must remember: He will come again. Just like the angels said "He will return. Until that day, the mission continues: to live as witnesses of what has been seen and received. To spread the Faith to all corners of the world and to live according to His teachings. "Whoever has my commandments and keeps them loves me. Whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them" - John 14,21

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@tkzenda1 sekuru mhanyai ndarwadziwa

Tinotoita zvekukumbirwa kuti svikaiwo kuno.

@GeneralBauer3 team herbs mahwani kkkkk

Urine retention munonyatsoiziva here imi?? If I could count the number of goats, cows, cars, and daughters that i have been promised after relieving it, I could easily be dishing dollars to everyone like dhafu.

@harare_1 last statement..we wish them well 🤔

SAD NEWS 💔: The United States Embassy in Harare has confirmed that they are shutting down all health programs they were undertaking after President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa directed Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade together with Ministry of Finance to abandon the Memorandum of Understanding negotiations. The proposed MoU was supposed to run for 5 years supporting health programs that include HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention, TB, Malaria among others.

@FinLitBae tiri kudzidza zvakawanda thank you

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@Tinayechiketa @Jamwanda2 it's the " even if I was" part for me

@Jamwanda2 Ndinoiita ndichirova rova kwese Mhofu 😹😹😹😹 Mungwana mukabhaiza ndombotiwo Ga… It’s just satire after all 😉😉

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@RexMidzi are those the stools he made himself

Father Zimbabwe in detention at Gonakudzingwa

@zimpricecheck how do one deposit money into ecocash Visa card

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@drruwende quite an outbreak

Anyone who has noticed this rash of late, in under 5, mostly hands and feet?

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” | Paulo Coelho

Your own kitchen is on fire, you lean over the fence and start making commentary and giving advice on some debate happening next door on whether they should BBQ sausages or rump steaks. Wakwana papi?

@GeneralBauer3 exactly 😂

'Ehe ndapinda red traffic light asi John akambopindawo nezuro, tangai neiyeye..'

@Luvritty_lue Congratulations

Graduated. Dr M😏, MBChB(UZ)

@dchiwaraa Congratulations

Dr Danai Chiwara MBChB (UZ).

Today is the feast of St. John Berchmans, a #Jesuit scholastic and the patron saint of altar servers, who died at age 22. ow.ly/vOWm50SWIbW

@GeneralBauer3 This always happens 🤣

'Doc tirikuuya namadam kuzobaiwa zvesiki asi madam munongovati ndoda kukupai mushonga wekucleaner system mese cz makarara mese murikuma periods.'