Strengthening leadership in implementing Social Insurance and Health Insurance policies in Nghe An

The Directive clearly states: To strengthen leadership, direction, and improve the effectiveness of implementing social insurance and health insurance policies in the province, contributing to ensuring social security and economic development; striving to bring Nghe An out of the group of provinces with low social insurance participation rates, completing the goals according to Action Program No. 88-CTr/TU, dated June 20, 2019 of the Provincial Party Committee on implementing Resolution No. 28-NQ/TW (abbreviated as Action Program No. 88-CTr/TU), the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee requests Party committees at all levels, authorities, the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations to perform well the following key tasks:

1. Continue to thoroughly grasp, propagate and effectively organize the implementation of the Party's policies and resolutions, the State's and the province's policies and laws on social insurance and health insurance.The focus is on Resolution No. 28-NQ/TW; Law on Social Insurance; Law on Health Insurance; Action Program No. 88-CTr/TU; Plan No. 81-KH/TU, dated March 7, 2022 of the Provincial Party Standing Committee on implementing the targets of the Resolution of the 13th National Congress of the Party, Resolution of the 19th Provincial Party Congress on the rate of social insurance and health insurance coverage in Nghe An province by 2025, with a vision to 2030;...

Make increasing the rate of participation in social insurance and health insurance a competitive criterion to evaluate the quality of grassroots Party organizations, agencies and units, and attach the role and responsibility of the leader.

2.Focus on directing the improvement of the quality of medical examination and treatment, development and socialization of the network of medical examination and treatment service organizations under health insurance at medical facilities.; ensure that all people are managed and provided with health care; are guaranteed equality in rights and obligations in participating in health insurance and receiving health services.

Direct the timely and adequate supply of medicines and medical supplies to serve the examination and treatment of people.

Implement synchronous solutions to prevent abuse and profiteering, ensure the balance of the health insurance fund and the rights of health insurance participants. Promote the strength of the entire political system and the participation of the entire population in monitoring the quality of medical examination and treatment at medical facilities.

3. Innovation in thinking and operation methods of the social insurance systemin the direction of service, fast, timely and ensuring the rights of social insurance and health insurance participants.

Enhance the role and responsibility of social insurance agencies in coordinating with agencies, departments, sectors and localities in increasing the proportion of people participating in social insurance and health insurance. Have effective solutions to remove difficulties and shortcomings in medical examination and treatment procedures, payment, settlement, and referral to treatment, ensuring patient satisfaction and the rights of people participating in health insurance.

4.Strengthening the role of State management in the fields of social insurance and health insurance.Include the target of developing social insurance and health insurance participants in the resolutions of People's Councils at all levels. Assign specific targets on coverage rates and development of social insurance and health insurance participants to each locality and unit. Strengthen coordination between relevant sectors and units, especially between social insurance at all levels and agencies such as the Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs, Health, Education and Training, Tax, etc. to facilitate and effectively implement the stages of screening, counting subjects, propaganda, mobilizing participation, ensuring regimes and policies and handling violations in the implementation of social insurance and health insurance policies.

Implementing organization:

- The Provincial People's Council Party Delegation leads the Provincial People's Council to include the target of developing social insurance and health insurance participants in the annual socio-economic development resolution and plan; strengthen supervision of the implementation of legal provisions on social insurance and health insurance. Issue a resolution on supporting social insurance premiums for voluntary social insurance and health insurance participants for ethnic minorities living in communes in regions II, III, and extremely disadvantaged villages in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in the period of 2016 - 2020, which are no longer on the list of communes in regions II, III, and extremely disadvantaged villages in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in the period of 2021 - 2025 according to the Prime Minister's decision.

- The Party Committee of the Provincial People's Committee leads the Provincial People's Committee to develop a plan to specify tasks to achieve the goal of increasing the rate of people participating in voluntary social insurance and health insurance every year. Issue and effectively implement the project to consolidate, develop and improve the quality of the public health system in the province. Direct relevant departments and branches to increase investment attraction for foreign-invested enterprises to increase the number of people participating in compulsory social insurance in the province.

- District, city, town Party Committees, and Party Committees directly under the Provincial Party Committee shall lead and direct the dissemination, deployment, and implementation of this Directive; include the target rate of people participating in social insurance and health insurance in resolutions of Party Committees, People's Councils, and plans of People's Committees; strengthen inspection and supervision of implementation. Periodically annually evaluate, summarize, draw lessons, promptly commend and reward collectives and individuals with outstanding achievements in the work of developing voluntary social insurance and health insurance participants.

- The Provincial Party Committee for Mass Mobilization, the Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Party Committee and the provincial socio-political organizations proactively and actively propagate and mobilize information to union members, members and people to participate in voluntary social insurance and health insurance; actively mobilize social resources to support social insurance payments and health insurance cards for people. Strengthen supervision and social criticism of the implementation of social insurance and health insurance policies; promptly reflect difficulties and obstacles, propose and amend inappropriate issues.

- The Party Committee of the Provincial Federation of Labor leads and directs trade union organizations in the province to proactively and actively coordinate with social insurance agencies and competent authorities to provide legal support, helping workers protect their legal and legitimate rights when participating in social insurance and health insurance.

- The Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department directs and guides the province's press agencies, reporters, and social opinion collaborators to promote information, propaganda, and dissemination of the Party's guidelines and policies and the State's laws on the implementation of social insurance and health insurance policies; regularly monitors, guides, inspects, supervises, and urges the dissemination and implementation of policies; presides over and coordinates with the Provincial People's Committee's Party Committee to periodically review, summarize, evaluate, and report to the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee on implementation results.

This directive is disseminated to Party cells, union members, association members and people of all walks of life in the province./.