{Health insurance} for all citizens

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{Health insurance} for all citizens

Saturday 26th September 2020 44

 

  Baghdad: Hoda Al-Azzawi 

 

Integrated health services for every Iraqi citizen regardless of his financial or employment status. Under this principle and the title, the House of Representatives completed voting on all articles of the Health Insurance Law, which consists of 47 articles, but the final vote on the law will be carried out after the comments of the government and the Ministry are made. Health, to fall within the scope of amendments to the law prepared by the Representative Health Committee and the Ministry.

The passage of this law will grant the right to every citizen to participate in health insurance and to obtain decent services, whether from private hospitals or private wards in government hospitals, and these services will be supported by the health insurance fund that is being established for this purpose. Member of the Parliamentary Health and Environment Committee, Representative Hassan Khatti, explains that “After the law comes into force, any citizen can go to private clinics, private laboratories, or the private ward in the government hospital, and he pays only a small part that does not exceed 10 percent of the total cost, and the rest of it pays By the Health Insurance Fund. "

With regard to the insurance subscription allowance, it is paid once in a lifetime and not monthly or annually, and it is considered a financial fee for receiving the health insurance card, and the subscription can be repeated in the event that a person loses his card or is damaged, and the subscription allowance differs between the rich and the poor, as it begins with those with degrees The Supreme Council will pay a subscription fee of 100 thousand dinars, and then gradually go down to 10 thousand for those with lower levels and all citizens.

In his speech to Al-Sabah, MP Khatti indicated that "the monthly deducted premium for health insurance is 1 percent of all employees and the equivalent in the private sector, which means that if the employee's salary is 750 thousand dinars, his monthly installment is seven thousand five hundred dinars, and this covers His card and the cards of his wife, children, and parents if they live with him, and his brothers and sisters are all with this amount, and it is not repeated for each of them. ”He states that“ all citizens - not employees - are measured on the lowest percentage, as there are exemptions by issuing the card for free and without a monthly installment. This concerns a group of groups mentioned in the law, including the poor, according to the coverage of the protection network, the handicapped in the security forces, and citizens sick with hereditary blood diseases, cancerous diseases, and other groups.

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Sounds familiar ...."If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor"

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Parliament is close to voting on a law that will deduct employees' salaries on a monthly basis

2020-09-26

Yes Iraq: Baghdad

The House of Representatives ended the vote on all articles of the health insurance law, consisting of 47 articles, but the final vote on the law will take place after the government's observations.

A member of the Parliamentary Health and Environment Committee, Hassan Khatti, said today, Saturday, that “after the entry into force of the law, any citizen can go to private clinics, private laboratories, or the private ward in the government hospital, and he pays only a small portion that does not exceed 10% of the total cost, and the remainder of it. Paid by the Health Insurance Fund.

Approval of this law will grant the right to every citizen to participate in health insurance and to obtain decent services, whether from private hospitals or private wards in government hospitals, and these services will be supported by the health insurance fund that is being established for this purpose.

With regard to the insurance subscription allowance, it is paid once in a lifetime and not monthly or annually, and it is considered a financial fee for receiving the health insurance card, and the subscription can be repeated in the event that a person loses his card or is damaged, and the subscription allowance differs between the rich and the poor, as it begins with those with degrees The Supreme Council will receive a subscription allowance of 100 thousand dinars, and then gradually go down to 10 thousand for owners of lower grades and all citizens.

Khatti pointed out that “the monthly deducted premium for health insurance is 1% of all employees and what corresponds to them in the private sector, which means that if the employee’s salary is 750 thousand dinars, his monthly installment is seven thousand five hundred dinars, and this covers his card and the cards of his wife, children and parents if they are They live with him, his brothers and sisters are all with this amount, and it is not repeated for every one of them. ”He states that“ all citizens - not employees - are measured on the lowest percentage, as there are exemptions by issuing the card for free and without a monthly installment, and that concerns a group of categories mentioned. In the law, including the poor according to the coverage of the protection network, the handicapped in the security forces, and citizens sick with hereditary blood diseases, cancerous diseases, and other segments.