As South Africa’s policymakers argue over the long-term shape of public healthcare, a nearer-term pressure is building inside the private healthcare system: medical schemes are losing younger members at the point the funding model needs them most, according to Luyanda Njilo, senior equity research analyst for healthcare at Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking. Medical schemes are designed around a simple form of cross-subsidisation. Younger,…
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