11 November 2006
The new Government Employees Medical Scheme (Gems) is drawing in members rapidly
and may have already attracted up to five or six percent of open medical schemes'
government-employee members away from these schemes.
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GEMS achieves the promotion of equitable access to comprehensive and affordable healthcare benefits by all public service employees...
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The Government Employees Medical Scheme (GEMS) today announced its benefit structures for 2007. The scheme, with its membership restricted to public servants only, also announced that it has reached a membership level of 45 000 principal members. This represents approximately 120 000 covered lives.
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As from 1 July 2006, public servants will qualify for an improved subsidy if they join GEMS. Level 1 - 5 employees qualify for free cover if they join Sapphire. Click on the PSCBC Resolution, Minister's announcement and Minister's determination for more information.
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The Government Employees Medical Scheme (GEMS), a registered medical scheme specifically for public service employees launched in January 2006, has experienced phenomenal growth, with 300 new members joining per day over the past month.
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It has only been eight months since the Government Employees Medical Scheme (Gems) opened doors for business and already some open medical aids are feeling the pain.
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The recently announced subsidy for the Government Employees' Medical Scheme (Gems), including a 100 percent subsidy for employees earning less than R60 000 a year, is a worthwhile exercise that is expected to drive up the scheme's membership figures.
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Pretoria - Government is to pay employees who belong or join Government Employee Medical Scheme, 75 percent of their total monthly medical contribution with effect from 1 July.
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THE government announced yesterday that it had finalised an agreement with unions on medical scheme subsidies for civil servants, a move it hopes will provide sufficient incentives to accelerate membership of the new Government Employees Medical Scheme (Gems).
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Stakeholders in the health sector have welcomed government's efforts to create favourable working conditions in the sector.
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Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi is in the Northern Cape to promote and create awareness about the new inexpensive medical aid for public servants.
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Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi took time out to express her support for GEMS early in January 2006. As the Keynote speaker, the Minister addressed over 1500 employees at the GEMS Northern Cape Road Show held in Kimberley on 10 January 2006. Also in attendance were the Northern Cape Premier, the provincial MEC for Health as well as the Director-General of the province.
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Speech: Minister for Public Service and Administration The Government Employees Medical Scheme (GEMS) was registered with effect from 1 January 2005 as a means to address the challenges in respect of the current provision of medical assistance to public service employees by government.
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