95% of the population will be covered by health insurance by 2025
The Prime Minister assigned the country to cover health insurance coverage for more than 95% of the population by 2025, according to a decision dated April 29.
Of these, localities must reach more than 90% by 2022, including: Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, An Giang, Ba Ria – Vung Tau, Bac Lieu, Bac Giang…
Vietnam has covered 91% of the population with health insurance. With the above target, an additional 4% of the population will be covered by health insurance between now and 2025.
Under the direction of the Prime Minister, near-poor and multi-dimensionally poor households will be supported with health insurance, with the goal of all participating. Households working in agriculture, forestry, fishery, and chlorophyll have an average standard of living; students, students are supported to increase the participation rate.
Localities need to regularly review information on labor and wages of businesses, deal with payment evasion and debt payment for social insurance and health insurance.
Cancer examination and treatment at the radiation treatment area of Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital, campus 2, May 2021. Image: Nhu Quynh
The Ministry of Education and Training needs to ensure that all students participate in health insurance by 2023. At the same time, the Ministry will include students’ participation in health insurance into the classification and emulation criteria. educational institution annually.
Vietnam Social Insurance is required to urge localities to have solutions to expand health insurance coverage. The Ministry of Health directs medical examination and treatment establishments to improve the quality of medical examination and treatment and their attitudes towards health insurance participants; improving the process of payment, medical examination and treatment with health insurance, creating favorable conditions for people.
Increasing health insurance coverage has been a hotly discussed topic in the National Assembly. In October 2021, during a group discussion at the National Assembly, Finance Minister Ho Duc Phuc proposed a mechanism to encourage the rich to participate in health insurance, because nearly 10% of the population has not yet participated in it. is this group.
Chairman of the Finance and Budget Committee Nguyen Phu Cuong, said that when people come for medical examination and treatment, health insurance reflects poor service quality, long waiting times, and not being treated fairly with medical examination and treatment services. . “I have a feeling that in big cities people rarely buy health insurance,” he said.
Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long, said that in the near future, the regulation will be revised in the direction that all people must have access to health insurance, instead of “paying only when sick, or paying in year, or not”.
From January 1, 2021, holders of health insurance cards will go to the wrong hospital for medical examination and treatment – that is, not at the place where they initially registered for medical examination and treatment, without a referral at provincial hospitals, if they are designated and treated. Inpatient treatment, the cost will be paid 100% by the Health Insurance Fund according to the benefit level of that group, instead of 60% as before. This provision does not apply to outpatient treatment.
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