How South Africa is legislating its way into a healthcare crisis
Unregulated tariffs and the lack of low-cost benefit schemes drive up the price of medical aid premiums, causing patients to feel the pain
Prescribed Minimum Benefits
Are the medical aids really fleecing you?
There’s good news and bad news when it comes to PMBs.
Comment: Restore medical aids to good health
Private healthcare is meant to support public health, but it must be kept in check.
Member ignorance the lifeblood of medical schemes
Many medical schemes rely on the ignorance of their members, who buy more expensive cover than they may need, for their very survival.
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Med scheme minimum benefits aren’t understood
Prescribed minimum benefits are to be pain in full by medical aid schemes, but consumers and some medical practitioners don’t understand this law.
