THE Council for Medical Schemes and the Board of Healthcare Funders of Southern Africa has come out in support of a government plan to regulate the private health care industry in a bid to bring down prices.
The government has proposed a new central bargaining forum, where the state, medical aids and the private health care industry will meet to set reasonable prices.
Committee chairperson, Bevan Goqwana of the ANC, said if private hospitals refused to set up the forum with government, then "laws can be made or corrected to fit the situation".
The forum idea is based on those that exist in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal and the UK.
Plan to regulate health prices
THE Council for Medical Schemes and the Board of Healthcare Funders of Southern Africa has come out in support of a government plan to regulate the private health care industry in a bid to bring down prices.
The government has proposed a new central bargaining forum, where the state, medical aids and the private health care industry will meet to set reasonable prices.
Committee chairperson, Bevan Goqwana of the ANC, said if private hospitals refused to set up the forum with government, then "laws can be made or corrected to fit the situation".
The forum idea is based on those that exist in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal and the UK.
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