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Discovery Health has launched an urgent High Court application in a bid to overturn a new Road Accident Fund directive that it will no longer pay for the past medical expenses of car accident victims who have medical aid.

Leading medical scheme administrator Discovery Health has launched an urgent high court application in a bid to overturn a new Road Accident Fund directive that it will no longer pay for the past medical expenses of car accident victims who have medical aid.Discovery, which administers 18 medical schemes as well as the Discovery Health Medical Scheme, with a total of about 3.

4 million beneficiaries, says the"communiqué" issued this month was unlawful and inconsistent with the fund's obligations under the Road Accident Fund Act to pay compensation those who suffer loss, injury or damages from road accidents.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.

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Common sense!

Can the Road Accident Fund please tell us where members of medical aids can buy fuel for R 2 less per litre if they will not be paying our medical expenses if we are in an accident?

Why must the govt pay private healthcare a cent for anything!

Well then people with medical aid should be exempt from the terrific recovered from the petrol price for the Road accident fund surely

Life and disability covers are next

Only feel sorry for Africans signing up with them.

then petrol should be cheaper for people with medical aid.

Bathong RAF!!! Discovery isn’t RAF

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