Medical Chronicle November/December 2013 | Page 11
Dr Adri Kok
Barry Childs
“It’s not that it’s broken, but it’s not complete,” said Childs.
“While National Health Insurance (NHI) is important, we
can’t leave medical schemes as a regulatory orphan in the
meantime.” This would mean introducing a risk equalisation
fund that would create a level playing ?eld between schemes
to even out the ?nancial impact of having different risk and
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