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Article: A free market, and no government interference, is only way to keep medical costs acceptable.(Business Report)
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- The Star (South Africa)
- Article date:
- April 8, 2008
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BYLINE: Dr Arnold Levin
Sandton
The article by Pat Sidley on medical insurance ("Appeal court allows Guardrisk to offer gap cover for medical costs", April 1) refers.
The matter is adequately sum[logical not]marised in the Council for Medical Schemes' remarks: "The council has sought to stop all insurance prod[logical not]ucts covering various health items on the grounds that such policies sold into the medical schemes envi[logical not]ronment might draw younger and fitter potential members of medical schemes into the insurance market, allowing them to drop out of med[logical not]ical schemes altogether, or buy cheaper medical scheme options with minimal ...