BUSINESS DAY TV: Challenging year ahead for healthcare industry
Roshan Bhana is with Alexander Forbes Health. BUSINESS DAY TV: As South Africans brace themselves for medical aid tariff increases well above inflation, the healthcare industry itself faces a fair amount of change in the year ahead. The Competition Commission is expected to wind up its inquiry into the industry while schemes also face proposed new risk-based solvency measures. Is this likely to change the face of medical schemes and will consumers ultimately pay even more for health insurance? Alexander Forbes Health recently published its Health Diagnosis for 2016 and 2017 and Roshan Bhana joins us with some of the reports insights. Roshan ... so a year of change ahead perhaps for the medical schemes industry, a year of challenges though as well, it looks like. ROSHAN BHANA: Yes, certainly the challenges have been well documented in the past two years. It’s just the nature of the industry and there’s very little appetite in terms of reforms that need to happen from the minister of ...
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