Discovery chief executive Adrian Gore has responded to the signing of the NHI into law – trying to calm panic among medical aid members who are unsure of what it means for them.
Discovery chief executive officer Adrian Gore has sent out a notice to all Discovery medical aid members clarifying what the signing of the National Health Insurance into law means for the group, and South Africans worried about their healthcare.
The panic arises from a key component of the new Act – Section 33 – which Gore said is “problematic”. “First, the impact of Section 33 is that only once the NHI is ‘fully implemented’ will medical schemes be limited in the cover they provide to medical scheme members. Until this point, there will be no change to your medical scheme cover. We believe it will take a long time – a decade at least – to achieve ‘full implementation’ given the scale and complexity of reforms needed,” he said.
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