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Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has called for regulators to hold medical schemes that are abusing the system accountable after Black and Indian doctors accused medical aids of racial profiling and discrimination. sabcnews

, has called for regulators to hold medical schemes that are abusing the system accountable.

This comes after the issue of medical aids discriminating against black and Indian doctors gained significant traction this week after theMotsoaledi says after hearing about this matter he elevated it to the Board of the Council of Medical Schemes and has been informed that the council will meet with the affected doctors.

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Our own docs are equally quilty, it's true they charge exorbitant fees... let alone abusing our funds.

The doctors and institutions also part of it, Netcare charged me over R12000 to put Cast to my daughter...not even operation 🤷‍♂️

LetsekuThabiso This one pretends to be hearing it for the first time, but we keep telling them everyday of our struggles. Blatant things, salary disparities even though people are equally or the person of color in better qualified. Motor insurance companies doing same. Like everyday things

It gets used to cover corruption! The doctors like politicians will run for cover using the racist card....what a shame our country has sunk so low.

Its not the drs abusing the medical aid,its the black members that misuse medical aid bcse from grandmothers to 10 kids ar on the medical aid plus 20 other FAM members then thy go t eye specialist and the glasses thy choose must Boss or Calvin Klein

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