Your article (New demarcation regulations to ‘curb current market abuse’, January 18) was unfortunately partisan and lacked insight into the broader view of how these regulations trample the rights of the poor. Government has alleged that they are needed to prevent insurance companies from circumventing the medical schemes legislation and thereby harming medical schemes. Nothing can be further from the truth. Throughout the nearly five-year consultation process it was asked of government to produce evidence of this supposed harm. Nothing was put forward to sustain such allegations, other than purely anecdotal analogies. The truth of these regulations is that they will trample on the rights of the poor to sustain the status quo of an unsustainable and failing medical schemes regulatory framework. Instead of government admitting that the existing healthcare framework is flawed and requires complete revision, it is seeking to place blame elsewhere for the industry failure. In so doing,...
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