It is a well-known fact that the cost of healthcare is increasing at a rate that exceeds general inflation by far, and that medical schemes’ biggest expense – on private hospitals – is ever soaring. Private hospitals are the biggest expense of the …
Way too many women are electing to have their babies by Caesarean section, or C-sections. Medical aids worry about the abnormally high number of C-sections each year. They say that few of these C-sections are medically necessary. Medical scheme giant Discovery Health claims…