June 9, 2015

9 June 2015 Choosing a medical aid to suit an individual or family’s needs remains a daunting task, and unnecessarily so. “It’s not the wide range of medical aid providers which makes this choice difficult, but rather it is the fact that these providers make it nearly impossible to formulate meaningful comparisons between the different plans,” says Jill Larkan, head of GTC Healthcare Consulting at SA’s established and leading financial advisory business GTC. “We seem to be in a situation where the providers are trying to make their plans more attractive by adding on multiple options which actually ends up making comparisons even more difficult.” Larkan has first-hand experience of the difficulties which medical aid members face by virtue of the GTC Medical Aid Survey that is compiled by the Healthcare Consulting team on an annual basis. This survey is... Read More