Council for Medical Schemes wants to ban low-cost healthcare insurance providers
CAPE TOWN – Against the backdrop of the pandemic Covid-19 (coronavirus), the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS), a division of the Department of Health, is once again in the spotlight with its continuing battle with primary and low-cost medical healthcare insurance providers, over its decision to ban them from providing such products in South Africa.
This is a move, which could leave around 500 000 members and their beneficiaries in the country, (up to 2 million people), without cover.
Given the global fallout over coronavirus and its potential to be more harmful than the Spanish Flu of 1918, is denying low-income households access to private healthcare, really the way to go?
Source: iol.co.za
