Discussing in groups about the draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Health Insurance on the afternoon of October 24, delegate Thach Phuoc Binh (Tra Vinh) proposed considering adding subjects participating in health insurance paid by the state budget, with support for the contribution level being the elderly aged 60 years and older.
Explaining this proposal, Mr. Binh said that according to the Law on the Elderly, people aged 60 and over are elderly people who receive social policy attention from the state.
However, according to current regulations, elderly people aged 80 and over who do not receive monthly allowances are entitled to social allowances and health insurance cards guaranteed by the state budget.
According to the Social Insurance Law 2024, the elderly aged 75 and over without a pension will receive social pension benefits and have a health insurance card paid for by the state budget.
“However, for people aged 60 and over to under 75 who do not receive pensions or benefits, there is no health insurance card paid by the state. I propose to include the group of people aged 60 to 80 years old, from July 1, 2025, people aged 60 to under 75 years old will have health insurance cards paid by the state,” the delegate proposed.
Also discussing the draft Law, delegate Tran Quoc Tuan (Tra Vinh) suggested that it is necessary to consider increasing the level of support from the state budget for students and households working in agriculture , forestry, fishery and salt production to reduce difficulties.
According to the delegate, the Party and the State have implemented many measures to implement social security policies for the people. The draft has added many subjects to be paid or supported by the social insurance organization or the state budget.
This group is currently supported by the state with at least 30% of health insurance premiums, the remaining 70% of health insurance participants must pay themselves and depending on the budget of each locality, additional support may be provided.
According to Mr. Tuan, however, the basic salary increased by 30% from July 1, which means that health insurance participants must pay 30% more out of their own pocket than before, equivalent to VND884,000/card/year.
Delegates proposed to consider increasing the support level from 30% to at least 50% of the health insurance premium for the above two groups of subjects.
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