/ 20 December 1996

Medical aid is one huge scam

Your front-page headline ‘Top firms in huge medical aid scam’ (December 13 to 19) is not really news.

The whole medical aid business is one huge scam.

Why should anyone be forced to help pay for the sleeping-pill and Prozac addictions of others? And why should anyone have to pay for the consequences of the gullibility of people who accept every bit of medical and surgical advice they are given because ‘someone else is paying’? The system encourages exploitation. ‘ Mary Fanner, Waterkloof, Pretoria