Sunday, January 7, 2007

Health in the news: Health insurance organizations are not able to cover all health needs of the population

Dr. Bagheri Lankarani, the Minister of Health remarked: Health inequality and lack of an comprehensive and uniform health insurance plan is the salient health problem in Iran. He added that without the establishment of an uniform, comprehensive public health insurance plan the Ministry of Health cannot help the system be more equitable. He admired the insurance organizations ,however, for increasing the public health insurance coverage from 75% to almost 90% in recent years.
Source: No: 1977, Jan 3, 2007 Aftab newspaper, http://www.aftabyazd.com/

My comment: I think this is quite understandable. We have at least 4 huge health insurance companies in Iran:Social Security Organization, Medical Treatment Insurance Organization, Imdad (relief) Committee Health Insurance for poor people, and Military Service Health Organization. Private insurance's coverage is around 1% . Many have double and even triple coverage while some (approximately 25% according to 2002 Household Healthcare Utilization Survey ) lack any. People who are working with a number of prestigious public, or private organizations benefit from a special coverage provided by complementary health insurance policy. Many attempts have failed so far in order to integrate the plans and build up a unified one. This remains, I believe, to be a major problem until the system makes an effective and simple policy to have one integrated health insurance plan for the entire population or alternatively implement a HMO-type policy.
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As population grows rapidly the demands on Health Insurance also grow. but the sad thing is the rapid as the population grows many also are jobless and can't afford health insurance or necessity to life.

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