Introduction to Clientele Life Hospital Plan Quotes Clientele has been providing health care benefit products to members for more than twenty years. During that time they have been amongst the first to market their products directly to new members. Their marketing maintains that…
Hospital Plans
Info about hospital plans – medical insurance schemes that cover the cost of hospitalisation but not outpatient expanses in South Africa.
Hospital plans are relatively new in South Africa. They have both upsides and downsides.
On the upside, they tend to be a lot cheaper than full medical insurance. But hospital plans do not cover the day to day cost of medicine or visits to a GP or specialists.
Nor, and this is important, do hospital plans cover treatment for cancer that may involve regular and frequent day visits to a hospital. You may need to make separate provision for such dread disease cover.
Comprehensive medical cover is unaffordable for most South Africans. So many people are looking at hospital plans with new interest. These hospital plans generally cost far less than what a full medical aid costs you. In South Africa you also have to understand…
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OnePlan is NOT a medical aid
One Plan is a popular form of health cover in South Africa. But South Africans should know that OnePlan is not a medical aid but instead a form of short-term health insurance. Here is how OnePlan health insurance differs from medical scheme membership:…
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Clientele Life Hospital Plan
What is the Clientele Life hospital plan all about? Clientele has been in business for longer than twenty years. They were the first to market their products directly to their potential members. They claim that their extensive experience in the health insurance industry…
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Clientele Hospital Plan
What is a Clientele Hospital Plan? The Clientele hospital plan is only one of many products from this large and well-respected company. They form part of a very large conglomerate of companies and they far exceed the rigid specifications set out in the…
The South African Advertising Research Foundation recently conducted a survey. It found that the proportion of blacks in the country’s population who are classified in the top category of living standards (LSM 10) rose by almost 40% between 2004 and 2014. Clearly, more…
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Clientele Life Hospital Plan
Many people call a Clientele Life hospital plan a medical aid scheme but it is not. Clientele life is an insurance company. Clientele offers hospital cover that DOES NOT cover all medical expenses such as specialist fees, medicines and therapy. The policy gives…
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Hospital Cover South Africa
The cost of private medical care in this country is simply frightening. Just a general doctor’s appointment can set you back a few hundred rands. And that’s before you’ve had to pay out for medicine. The hospital cover South Africa offers can help…
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Affordable Hospital Plan
There are plenty of medical aid schemes in South Africa and it’s not difficult to find an affordable hospital plan. A hospital plan is a type of entry level health cover option. Hospital plans are typically the most basic and cheapest of medical…
Waiting periods for hospital plans irritate people. You have to serve these waiting periods when you start a new medical aid or you are looking to increase your level of cover. Many people only find out about these waiting periods when they want…