Capital strives for 94.5% health insurance coverage in 2024
VGP - The local social security system must continue to expand health insurance coverage to 94.5 percent of the population by 2024, according to a document recently released by the municipal People's Committee.
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The city government tasked the Ha Noi Social Security Department to keep insurance arrears in Ha Noi at or below the national average, control health care costs, prevent profiteering from the health insurance fund, and combat evasion of social insurance and unemployment insurance premiums.
In the period ahead, the city will seek to increase the number of people registered for social security, unemployment insurance, and voluntary social insurance, the document stresses.
The municipality will increase banking penetration to facilitate the payment of pensions or monthly social allowances.
Deputy Director of the Ha Noi Social Security Vu Duc Thuat said that as of late February, the number of health insurance enrollments in the capital city reached 7.9 million, or 89.61 percent of the city's registered population. Voluntary social insurance has been signed up by 82,009 people, about 57.91 percent of the target set for 2024.
Meanwhile, the number of people enrolled in compulsory social insurance reached 1.8 million, 87.8 percent of the target. The number of persons paying unemployment insurance contributions was over 1.6 million, or 94.1 percent of the target. The number of contributors to voluntary social insurance was more than 37,000, or 5.19 percent of the target.
He pointed out several factors contributing to the enrolment of people into the social security system, including the city's partial subsidization of the premium for people enrolling in voluntary social insurance, which is twice as high as the general regulation.
"In addition to those who are given free health insurance cards according to regulations, the city has implemented a special policy to subsidize premiums in some cases," Thuat said. However, the socio-economic situation, which has not yet fully recovered, prevents many people from signing up for voluntary social insurance.
Many workers become unemployed and are forced to interrupt the process of paying compulsory social security contributions, or are forced to collect social security in a lump sum to cover immediate emergencies./.
