Quynh Luu: the rate of people participating in health insurance reaches 60.62%

(Baonghean.vn) - To achieve the goal of universal health insurance, Quynh Luu district has made many efforts, but the rate of people participating in health insurance is still the lowest in the province.

In recent times, the promotion of universal health insurance has contributed to ensuring social security in Quynh Luu district. However, up to now, the rate of people participating in health insurance in the whole district has only reached 60.62%. A low rate compared to the average of the province.

The reason is that the production and business situation of enterprises in the district is facing many difficulties. Some units intentionally circumvent the Law and do not implement regulations on signing labor contracts for employees or sign labor contracts but do not participate in social insurance and health insurance for employees. Some units only register to participate for a short time but then stop operating.

People come to transact at the One-stop Department of Social Insurance of Quynh Luu district.

Currently, in the district, there are 174 enterprises with 2,700 employees who have not declared their participation in social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance. On the other hand, the awareness of some employers has not fully realized the importance and significance of implementing social insurance and health insurance policies and regimes for employees, which will contribute to creating trust and increasing employee commitment, thereby stabilizing production.

In addition, workers do not understand the legal policies on health insurance and the Labor Law, so they do not know how to claim their rights. The work of evaluating, investigating, reviewing and counting people in poor households, near-poor households, agricultural, forestry, fishery and salt-producing households with average annual living standards is not timely, affecting the issuance of cards to subjects according to regulations.

Up to this point, Quynh Luu still has nearly 2,000 people in near-poor households who have not participated in health insurance. Information and propaganda work on health insurance policies is still limited, not regular and not really widespread to each person. On the other hand, many people have not seen all the benefits of health insurance, so they are still hesitant and hesitant to buy health insurance, causing the health insurance coverage in Quynh Luu district to be low.

The deployment of the HCM Egov Framework 2.0 e-government core software has helped staff of specialized departments in Quynh Luu district control information content.

Talking about the benefits of health insurance, Mr. Ho Van Mai - Hamlet 7, Quynh Hau Commune, Quynh Luu District shared: "As a person participating in health insurance, I find health insurance very beneficial for myself and my family. It reduces a lot of medical examination and treatment costs.

Developing health insurance subjects is identified as the top priority task of the social insurance sector of Quynh Luu district in the coming time. The district social insurance has closely followed Resolution 21-NQ/TW of the Politburo and has received the consensus of the Party Committee and the government, especially the coordination of departments and branches in the implementation, organization, propaganda and mobilization of people to participate. "We have reviewed the subjects and widely propagated about health insurance to the people. Those who have the ability and need to participate in health insurance first will be approached and mobilized to buy" - Ms. Chu Thi Ngoc - Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Quynh Giang commune, Quynh Luu district said.

Carpentry in Quynh Hung commune (Quynh Luu) creates jobs for nearly 600 workers. However, this workforce is still not interested in participating in health insurance.

To maintain and achieve the target of 64% coverage rate of health insurance participants according to plan 81/KH-UBND.VX of the Provincial People's Committee set for Quynh Luu district in 2016 and increase the rate for the following years is considered a big challenge for the district when by the end of this year, there must be nearly 8,900 more people participating in health insurance. Therefore, in the coming time, it is necessary to continue to have synchronous and specific solutions, strong implementation methods, suitable for each period of economic and social development of the district. There must be the participation of the entire political system to ensure the successful implementation of the goal of universal health insurance. Regularly organize inspections of the implementation of legal regulations on the responsibility of schools to participate in health insurance, improve the school health system to provide primary health care for children, pupils and students. It is possible to integrate the target of households participating in health insurance into the consideration of the standards for new rural communes and the standards for cultural families.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Kim Chung - Director of Quynh Luu District Social Insurance said: "The main and most important solutions are the direction of Party committees, authorities, organizations, and schools to really get involved in propagating to the people and parents of students. We must expand the network of agents at the commune level so that they can do a good job of collecting for the subjects in the area. Another solution is that the District People's Committee must annually assign targets to communes, and at the same time assign targets to schools and education departments. On that basis, schools assign targets to classes, communes assign targets to agents, and to each village and hamlet."

Thanh Nhan

(Quynh Luu Radio)

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