{
  "id": 15746400,
  "title": "Medicine price hike could cost medical schemes and households R1.4bn more",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/medicine-price-hike-could-cost-medical-schemes-and-households-r1-4bn",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-20T12:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "IOL",
    "slug": "iol",
    "url": "https://iol.co.za/business/2026-10-20-medicine-price-hike-could-cost-medical-schemes-and-households-r14bn-more/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Health Funders Association says the extraordinary 2.88% medicine price increase could add about R1bn to medical scheme spending and R400m to households’ annual medicine costs.",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}