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Ministry plans include program working out according to which health insurance becomes obligatory: besides the state the preliminary payment should bring and the patient. From the social tax us thus will not release.
*Министр deserves a monument? *
To put things in order in public health services sphere, to get rid of thanks in envelopes, to provide needy with appropriate medical leaving such purposes puts before itself Ministry of Health, bringing up a question on obligatory insurance of health. But than so global reform will come to the end? The head of the Latvian society of doctors Петерис Апинис is ready to support the initiative of the minister.
“It is necessary to order public health services sphere, he has told to Telegraph. In this case the person will know, that its money leaves on health. And if the minister carries out this plan, it should put a small monument. The main thing that he has not forgotten about the promises”. However the head of the Society of doctors recognises: the insurance medicine has a minus dearness.
Пациента will make крайним
Whom the new system while it is precisely not known will cost a pretty penny. “While we cannot precisely tell, how the new system of insurance as the Agency of obligatory insurance of health (VOAVA) has just now started to work over this project will look, recognised in conversation with Telegraph the press-secretary of Ministry of Health Egita the Field. But as a whole we are going to reconsider a basket of those medical services which are paid by the state. And who will pay more while it is not known”.
But most likely additional payments will be raised from us, ordinary tax bearers. “If the new system looks as additional deductions from wages, that, by itself, inhabitants of Latvia will suffer, Maria Matveeva admitted to Telegraph representative Bjuro on protection of the rights of patients. As to a variant of deduction of additional gathering from taxes paid by us the social tax already now comprises the percent leaving on public health services”.
Sceptically former Minister of Health Ingrida Tsirtsene concerns such offer also: “At people is not present additional 200300 латов to buy an insurance policy”.
There is also one more variant when additional gathering pays the employer. “Health insurance uses the increasing demand in the market, the president of the Latvian association of insurers Юрис Думпис has told to Telegraph. Thus, employers use tax privileges and involve employees with additional social advantages”.
Минздрав provokes economic спад
Till now it was a question of voluntary insurance of workers. And what will be, if it becomes obligatory for all? “In that case at us will appear even more illegal immigrants for it will be more favourable to employers to hide the employees, representative Bjuro of protection of the rights of patients Maria Matveeva considers. And after that the official number of the unemployed such situation will grow will not stimulate certainly economic growth”.
Страховщики will earn больше
But insurers obviously do not object to introduction of obligatory insurance of health. “We concern the idea positively, however more detailed comments to give we can not yet, after all conditions of obligatory insurance are yet known”, the president of the Latvian association of insurers Юрис Думпис has assured.
And its colleague on association Vita Bochkane (insurance company Balta) has sounded the reasons on which businessmen are interested in obligatory insurance. “In the end of a year in hospitals quite often there are problems with quotas, and people try to solve them by means of insurance policies. It would be desirable, that in new model such was not”, she speaks. There is a logic assumption: as a result of introduction of universal insurance will win unless insurance firms. However Юрис Думпис from comments has in this respect refrained: “At first we will wait the concrete scheme, and we will consider then who will earn more”.
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