Just mention “Apartheid” and white people go limp and start throwing free stuff at blacks. The ANC regime have become Billionaires off of this scam, which is why the ANC government in Pretoria has threatened to accuse wealthy nations of hoarding Covid jabs, and “vaccine apartheid,” if they don’t share Covid jabs. South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa has got the old well worn begging bowl out again, accompanied by all the well used, tried and tested rhetoric to extract more hand outs from the West. As a selling tool he raises the spectre of millions of people in poorer countries (to whom the West have given Billions for decades), which may die waiting to be inoculated against Covid-19, as rich countries inoculate their own people.
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Ramaphosa Tries the “Apartheid Whip” Scam to Destroy Multinational Covid Patent Profits & Guilt Trip Covid Vaccines from Wealthy Countries!
Bonitas:- Price hike and big changes for medical aid plans in 2019
Medical aid scheme Bonitas is to increase prices across its various plans by a weighted average of 8.9% in 2019 – while also launching two new lower-cost plans.
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Market concentration is plaguing South Africa’s private healthcare market
New Survey: Medical aid members have more choice
In the battle for a slice of the private healthcare market, there has been significant growth in the number of medical schemes performing well across all sections of the medical aid spectrum. Whilst this means that members get more choice, it also makes the landscape increasingly complex.
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Comment on the NHI Bills presented by Health Minister
Bonitas Medical Fund welcomes the draft amendment Bill to the end that it aims to make healthcare more accessible.
“While in principle we support the actions of the government and applaud them for taking proactive measures………
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Hat trick for Bonitas Medical Fund
Bonitas Medical Fund was recently awarded the Ask Afrika Orange Index for service excellence. This makes it a hat trick for the fund this year, having earlier received both the Kasi Star Brand Award and the ICON Brands Survey award – both for the medical aid category. Hat trick for Bonitas Medical Fund The Ask..
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Union tells government to ‘fix the mess’ at KZN’s health department or else …
Pietermaritzburg – The National Education Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) has warned of an all-out strike if the KwaZulu-Natal provincial government does not “step up in fixing the mess” at the provincial health department. The warning was issued by Nehawu provincial secretary Phakama Ndunakazi on Thursday at the conclusion of a march in Pietermaritzburg…
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Private healthcare environment compromised by unregulated fees
According to Patrick Masobe, chief executive officer of Agility Health, healthcare specialists are able to invoice patients and medical schemes in an unregulated fee-for-service environment – in which every service performed has a code and a price tag – with secondary healthcare expenditure eating away at the medical scheme benefits of South Africans. “Among the..
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Council pursues bogus health practitioners
A rise in bogus health practitioners has forced the Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) and medical schemes to strengthen their forensics units to curb fraud. A team at the HPCSA is conducting about 400 investigations into bogus practitioners. To date, just more than 40 arrests have been made, but prosecutions are slow. Data from..
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Medical aid waiting periods and late-joiner penalties: What. How. Why?
The world of medical schemes in South Africa is a very different one to 25 years ago. There are strict rules and regulations governing the industry, there to protect both the members and the financial sustainability of the scheme. Now is the time of year when medical schemes announce their annual increases and benefit changes…
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