Text file: 8357.txt
author: Marija Krajnc
downvotes: 10
end consideration date: 2017-06-30
id: '8357'
number comments: 6
number views: 2997
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: "Response from the Ministry of Health\nA three-month waiting period is foreseen\
  \ for insured persons who join the supplementary health insurance after one month\
  \ from the time they have to pay the difference in the cost of health services (after\
  \ finishing school or losing student status, upon employment, etc.), as school-age\
  \ children and students up to the age of 26 are exempted from the supplementary\
  \ health insurance and do not need it. There is also a waiting period if more than\
  \ one month has elapsed between the termination and the take-up of the new insurance.\
  \ The waiting period prevents the late integration of the young population in particular\
  \ into the social security system (this includes supplementary health insurance)\
  \ and the speculative taking out of this insurance when it is known that we will\
  \ need a health service immediately. This is because supplementary health insurance\
  \ is about so-called intergenerational reciprocity. For the socially weaker (as\
  \ in the case you cite), the co-payments are covered by the state budget and there\
  \ is no waiting period for this reason.\n "
response date: 2017-08-14
response due date: null
sent date: 2017-06-01
title: Proposal to abolish the 3-month waiting period for supplementary health insurance
upvotes: 12
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/8357
