Healthcare / General

Medical scheme or insurance

Wikipedia.org defines insurance as the equitable transfer of the risk of a loss, from one entity to another, in exchange for payment. This broad definition holds for any category of insurance including life, short-term (personal lines and commercial) and

Outlawing gap cover won’t aid medical schemes or members, says Old Mutual

Draft legislation released recently by National Treasury will, if implemented, outlaw gap cover and mostly likely lead to a simple loss of benefits for members, without helping medical schemes.

Alexander Forbes: Comment on the proposed amendment of the regulations to the Short-term Insurance Act 1998, as amended

White paper on NHI expected imminently

Government’s White Paper on the National Health Insurance initiative is expected to be published imminently, providing more detail on exactly how the project will be implemented; yet the reality is that the scale of the project is so vast it will be impos