Following the release of circulars 80 and 82 by the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) that effectively called for an end to the Low Cost Benefit Option, citing the roll-out of the National Health Insurance which has not even been finalised and/or been signed into existence by the President of the Republic, Mr M C Ramaphosa, and thus a premature decision by CMS, (a) what is the current status of the specified circulars and (b) has the CMS concluded stakeholder engagements on the issue?