Unaffordable medical scheme contributions: A barrier to access to private health cover in South Africa

The purpose of the Medical Schemes Act, No. 131 of 1998 was inter alia to ‘promote non discriminatory access to privately funded health care’. A number of reforms were proposed as steps on a path to Social Health Insurance (SHI) with the ultimate goal of the reforms being to increase the number of p...

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Main Authors: T. Fish, S. Ramjee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AOSIS 2007-09-01
Series:South African Journal of Business Management
Online Access:https://sajbm.org/index.php/sajbm/article/view/586