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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2007-09-01
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Series: | South African Journal of Business Management |
Online Access: | https://sajbm.org/index.php/sajbm/article/view/586 |