Health insurance coverage reaches 90 percent of population

A worker of Phu Tho Social Insurance Agency talks to a social-insurance user in northern Phu Tho Province. (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam has 85.39 million health insurance holders as of the end of 2019, accounting
for 90 percent of the population, heard a recent conference.

The conference
was held by the (VSS) last week to give updates on
, and unemployment insurance policies in
this year.

The VSS
reported that over 15.18
million Vietnamese have been covered by compulsory social insurance by the end
of 2019 while the number of people who joined occupational accident and disease
insurance and unemployment insurance schemes are 15.07 million and 13.34
million, respectively.

By expanding
the coverage of social insurance and health insurance, the premiums increased
to 361.55 trillion VND (15.67 billion USD) this year, 0.54 percent higher than the year’s plan.

In 2019, the
country saw 551,000 join voluntary social insurance, doubling the total holders last year which stood at
270,000. It was viewed as a remarkable result, given that the figure was just
6,000 in 2008 when the scheme was first introduced.

About 30
million people are yet to participate in the social insurance scheme./.