A discourse and content analysis of representation in the mainstream media of the South African National Health Insurance policy from 2011 to 2019

Table 4 Media texts collected for content analysis

Policy documents	Date released	Dates searched for	No. of articles (with multiples^*)
Green Paper	2011/08/12	2011/07/29 – 2011/08/26	151 (161)
White Paper 1	2015/12/11	2015/11/27 – 2015/12/25	26 (27)
White Paper 2	2017/06/30	2017/06/16 – 2017/07/14	40 (46)
Draft Bill	2018/06/21	2018/06/07 – 2018/07/05	166 (199)
Bill	2019/08/08	2019/07/25 – 2019/08/22	203 (277)

^*Texts that were published more than once are included in brackets but were excluded from further analysis

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