Racial demographics of doctors not known by medical aids

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The SA Human Rights Commission is shocked that medical aids have no racial or gender profiles of healthcare practitioners on their networks

The SA Human Rights Commission hauled medical aids over the coals on Wednesday after they admitted they do not know the racial demographics of the healthcare practitioners on their networks.

“How many practitioners? How many females? How many black‚ coloured‚ Indian people are there in our network?” SAHRC Gauteng manager Buang Jones said. This was after Discovery Health CEO Jonathan Broomberg said, during their submissions to the SAHRC, that they have no demographic breakdown of the roughly 35‚000 healthcare practitioners on their healthcare network.

The SAHRC held a preliminary hearing to investigate if it should launch a full inquiry into medical aid schemes. This follows claims that some black medical practitioners suspect that medical schemes are using coercion‚ unlawful investigations and other means to hold them ransom before they are paid out.

 

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