Who’d benefit from mandatory medical aids for people earning more than R99k?
Medical aids must be affordable In theory, mandatory membership could create room for lower premiums because schemes would have a broader and potentially healthier risk pool.
SOMS assessed the impact of introducing mandatory membership and a risk-equalisation mechanism on medical schemes and their members.
Mandatory medical aid membership for South Africans earning above the income tax threshold was presented as one of the medical scheme reforms in research commissioned by the Health Funders Association (HFA).
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