With many South Africans unable to afford medical aid, medical insurance is filling in the gap, writes Maya Fisher-French. Photo: iStockFor even the most basic hospital plan, a main member would pay R1 500 to R2 000 a month.
A single parent with a child can expect to pay at least R2 300 a month. This would require a take-home salary of at least R20 000 a month for the medical cover not to exceed 10% of the household budget.Subscribe to News24 for just R75 per month to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. You can cancel any time.
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City_Press Yet. The GVT employees can have medical aid. Very affordable to them. The rich does not even contribute anything to be on top plans.
Are you now promoting these insurances or something? Where is NHI rather?
City_Press I still need to investigate mine. I'm paying 5000 for me and my son. Something is not right.
City_Press Because only 8 million have jobs
City_Press Yet if you don't have medical aid you are screwed. State hospitals are a joke
City_Press As unaffordable as medical aids are so abhorrent most govt hospitals are..
City_Press Lemme guess NHI is the way forward.....pay for your mums medical aid... Don't write fairy tales
City_Press Med aids are the real thieves in SA.
City_Press Out of 60 million, what happened to NHI
City_Press Not only unaffordable, they cover half the medical expense
City_Press And while we paying double the prices compared to 50 years back we are receiving 50% less service/quality
City_Press Delete , Remove Medical Aids , the biggest Farce ever , Doctors , Dentists over charge and try take every penny out of Medical aids and sometimes medical aid does not even cover the 200% mark up Doctors put on , Its sickening , We all have to work to eat , but this is ridiculous
City_Press I searched on hippo_insurance for cheaper premiums and i got the best cover for more people... for far lesser than i was paying in my previous greedy medical aid. I agree with some parts of this article.
City_Press This is true