Text file: 6636.txt
author: Marjan Bizilj
downvotes: 4
end consideration date: 2015-04-15
id: '6636'
number comments: 9
number views: 8564
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: "Response from the Ministry of Health\nWe would like to clarify that the\
  \ reasons for the increase in the health care contribution were based on an analysis\
  \ of the health care sector, which, in a period of a gap between the available resources\
  \ of compulsory health insurance and health needs - health expenditure - showed\
  \ a large gap and the need for interventionist changes in the health insurance sector,\
  \ including individual changes in the level of the health care contribution.\nIt\
  \ is for this reason that the Ministry of Health has embarked on the drafting of\
  \ a new Health Insurance and Health Care Act, which will harmonise contribution\
  \ rates and the burden, which varies widely between different categories of insured\
  \ persons, and will now be more equitably shared.\nThe allegation of double payment\
  \ of health care contributions by students does not stand up, as a student with\
  \ a status is normally insured as a family member, but when he/she is working as\
  \ a student, he/she only pays a contribution in case of an occupational injury.\
  \ Comparing the level of the contribution with the level of health services in the\
  \ way summarised in your question is inappropriate, as the quality of health services\
  \ is influenced by a number of reasons which cannot be summarised easily, but could\
  \ be given as examples.\nThe contributions for the self-employed and the unemployed,\
  \ and some other categories, have changed because they were disproportionately low\
  \ compared to the other categories. We would point out here that employees pay on\
  \ average \u20AC208 per month.\n "
response date: 2017-12-27
response due date: null
sent date: 2015-03-17
title: Reduction in the contribution to basic health insurance
upvotes: 15
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/6636
