Whether his department has established a framework to deal with the financing of emergency care in order to ensure that (a) patients are not left with catastrophic out-of-pocket liabilities and (b) health care providers, particularly hospitals are paid; if not, (i) why not, (ii) when will such a framework be finalised, (iii) how are service providers currently paid and (iv) what is the backlog in the payment of emergency care; if so, what are the relevant details?