Tay Hoa strives to cover social insurance and health insurance for all people

People come to transact at the one-stop department of Tay Hoa district regarding social insurance. Photo: LE VAN

In order to implement the target of developing voluntary social insurance and universal health insurance, in recent times, Tay Hoa District Social Insurance has coordinated with Party committees and authorities at all levels in the district to flexibly deploy solutions, ensuring the completion and exceeding of assigned targets.

Synchronously deploy multiple solutions

According to Ms. Ngo Thi Thuy Diem, Deputy Director of Management and Operation of Tay Hoa District Social Insurance, in order to implement the roadmap for universal health insurance coverage and voluntary social insurance, recently, Tay Hoa District Social Insurance has advised the District Party Committee and the District People's Committee to issue directive documents, assign targets for development and mobilization of social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance for communes and towns in the area. At the same time, the unit also plans to coordinate with mass organizations, People's Committees of communes and towns, and collection service organizations in the area to propagate and mobilize people, relatives of cadres, civil servants and public employees to participate. At the same time, the District Social Insurance thoroughly grasps and effectively implements administrative reform in receiving and handling administrative procedures, serving quickly and conveniently to meet the needs of people and subjects. The unit also promotes direct communication to people through coordination with collection service organizations, members of the commune and town steering committees to organize small group propaganda campaigns "going to every alley, knocking on every door, checking every subject" and organizing dialogue conferences and customer conferences.

“Along with coordinating communication with sectors and organizations, Tay Hoa District Social Insurance has taken advantage of social networking sites such as Zalo and Facebook to post news, images, and stories to widely spread meaningful and profound messages about social insurance and health insurance policies. Along with that, the unit coordinates with health insurance medical examination and treatment facilities to promote the benefits of health insurance policies for people with health insurance cards. Thanks to the synchronous implementation of these solutions, by the end of April 30, 2025, Tay Hoa district had 5,113 people participating in social insurance; 103,843 people participating in health insurance, reaching a coverage rate of 95.62% of the population,” Ms. Ngo Thi Thuy Diem added.

At Hoa Dong Agricultural and Service Cooperative (Tay Hoa district), in recent times, by working effectively and creatively, up to now, the cooperative's collection service organization has 11 collection staff, managing nearly 8,800 people participating in health insurance with a total amount of nearly 6.4 billion VND; 160 people participating in voluntary social insurance with a total amount of nearly 950 million VND. This is also one of the typical units in the work of developing voluntary social insurance and health insurance participants in the locality.

Social insurance and health insurance are important policies in the social security system, helping to take care of people's health. The health insurance coverage rate also contributes to completing the criteria for communes meeting new rural and advanced new rural standards. To move towards the goal of universal social insurance, contributing to the good implementation of social security policies, along with the efforts of the social insurance sector, it is necessary to have the joint efforts of the entire political system so that people can access the social security policies of the Party and the State.

Ms. Ngo Thi Thuy Diem, Deputy Director of Management and Operation of Social Insurance of Tay Hoa District

Mr. Nguyen Thanh Minh, Director of Hoa Dong Agricultural and Service Cooperative said: “We persistently advocate, propagate, and focus on potential groups such as good farming households, farm owners, cooperative workers, freelancers with income such as traders, individual businesses, and small traders, contributing to helping people see the practical benefits of participating in health insurance and voluntary social insurance as a way to contribute when healthy and save when sick. At the same time, we emphasize that health insurance covers most of the medical examination and treatment costs, helping the poor and near-poor reduce the burden of family expenses when sick; the risks of not participating in social insurance and health insurance, changing people's awareness, actions, and habits, thereby helping them proactively participate in voluntary social insurance and health insurance to ensure social security and stabilize their lives."

Many challenges remain

In recent times, with the participation of all levels and sectors, many solutions have been proposed to develop and expand the number of people participating in social insurance and health insurance in Tay Hoa district. Although the development speed and social insurance coverage rate of the district have increased, they are not sustainable compared to the general coverage rate of the province and the whole country...

According to Ms. Ngo Thi Thuy Diem, the main reason is that some local Party committees and authorities have not fulfilled their roles and responsibilities in directing and organizing the implementation of social insurance and health insurance policies and laws in localities and units; considering the organization and implementation of social insurance and health insurance policies in general, and the development and expansion of social insurance and health insurance participants as the sole tasks of social insurance agencies. On the other hand, people's income and life still face many difficulties. The level of support from the state budget is still low in the context of limited local budgets, and there are not many mechanisms and policies to support voluntary social insurance and health insurance contributions for participants. In addition, a number of officials, employers, workers and people do not clearly understand the regime, policies and benefits, as well as the necessity of participating in social insurance and health insurance. The sense of responsibility of employers is not high; Many businesses deliberately circumvent the law, do not sign labor contracts, or sign contract contracts to avoid the responsibility of paying social insurance and health insurance for employees.

“In order to strive to fulfill the set targets and tasks, in the coming time, the district Social Insurance will continue to coordinate with departments and localities to organize propaganda on policies and laws of social insurance, health insurance, unemployment insurance, contributing to increasing the number of people participating in voluntary social insurance and family health insurance. The unit also takes advantage of the direction of Party committees at all levels, local authorities, and coordination with departments and organizations to promptly remove difficulties; at the same time, promote administrative procedure reform, creating favorable conditions for people and businesses when implementing social insurance and health insurance policies,” Ms. Ngo Thi Thuy Diem emphasized.

Source: https://baophuyen.vn/xa-hoi/202505/tay-hoano-luc-bao-phu-bao-hiem-xa-hoi-va-y-te-toan-dan-a102cb5/