Area: Zdravstvo
Competent authority: MZ
EZU URL: .nan
Initiative ID: 256
Initiative accepted and completed: '2013-12-27'
Initiative classified in EZU: .nan
Initiative forwarded in response: '2013-12-05'
Initiative published: '2013-12-05'
Initiative submitted: '2013-11-28'
Response from the competent authority: 'Reply from the Ministry of Health: The reform
  changes to the health care financing system include various solutions that follow
  the principle of preserving solidarity and financial sustainability of the health
  care system and the abolition of the current form of supplementary health insurance.
  This means that the scope of services covered by compulsory health insurance will
  be fully covered by the public health budget, with no co-payments. In addition to
  the above, the solutions also include the orientation that, within the limits of
  the financial resources available for health care, labour costs will not increase.
  In this context, your proposal to raise the health contribution rate (or insurance
  contribution, as you call it) by 3% is questionable, since it increases labour costs,
  or in other words, it increases taxes and income contributions. From a public finance
  point of view, this is unacceptable. While reducing the operating costs of supporting
  the system, which will certainly decrease if supplementary health insurance is abolished,
  is also an important consideration in the drafting of the amendments, this is not
  the only reason for seeking the most appropriate solutions on the health fundraising
  and insurance design side. The financing system needs to increase the degree of
  solidarity (which is currently absent on the supplementary health insurance side)
  and ensure the long-term financial sustainability of the system. As regards the
  suggestion in the initiative that the poor cannot afford supplementary insurance,
  we assume that you are referring to supplementary health insurance. In cases of
  socially deprived persons, this insurance is adequately covered by the budget.'
Text file: 256.txt
Title: Abolition of supplementary health insurance and increase in the insurance contribution
URL: https://www.stopbirokraciji.gov.si/pobuda/?st=256
