Deputy PM: Vietnam will not raise health insurance premiums until 2020

He made the statement during a meeting recently
held in Hanoi on amendments to Government Decree 105/2014/ND-CP stipulating the
enforcement of several articles of the .

To ensure the interests of health insurance
participants, Hue asked the Health Ministry to collect feedback from ministries
and units of finance and justice and the Vietnam Social Security (VSS) on
amendments and supplements to the draft decree, which is slated for submission to
the government this year.

The Health Ministry was also ordered to work
with the Finance Ministry and VSS to make a report on considering adjusting health
service prices to submit to the government in the first quarter of 2018.

Together with the VSS, the Health Ministry
must raise public awareness of health insurance policies and the use of the health
insurance fund.

The country has issued a resolution on
public health which aims for 95 percent of the population to be covered by
health insurance by 2025.

By December 31, 2016, 81.7 percent of
Vietnam’s population or about 75.9 million people had joined health
insurance.-VNA