Scrapping private health cover a violation of bill of rights
Poor and middle-income South Africans to suffer the consequences of this form of social engineering based on ill-informed government decisions
15 April 2020 - 15:28
In the next 12 months, hundreds of thousands of South Africans are to be stripped of their private insurance cover. No private primary health insurance products will be allowed beyond March 2021. The development of the low-cost benefit option (LCBO) is to be scrapped.
This was announced by the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) in December last year, stunning the private health insurance market...
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