Council for medical schemes to do away with low-cost benefit packages: Kerry Hertog

The medical aid schemes industry is at loggerheads - following a recent announcement by the Council for Medical Schemes - that it intends to discontinue primary health insurance and low-cost benefit packages Many seem to share the view that South Africa already has a struggling public healthcare system and an expensive private healthcare; and therefore, the move will further deal the poor a major blow. To help us understand this development, we are now joined by Kerry Hertog from the Healthcare Stakeholders' Forum. For more news, visit sabcnews.com and also #SABCNews on Social Media.