Health insurance – a lifebuoy for patients
The public health insurance fund paid more than half a million US dollars for treatment of just a single patient over three years. The payment marked a record amount that public health insurance fund has ever covered for an individual’s medical treatment since the early 1990s when Vietnam’s first health insurance policies were passed.
According to the Vietnam Social Security, Vietnam has 83.4 million health insurance cardholders, accounting for 88.1 percent of its population. Last year, the Government issued a decree to add more people eligible to join health insurance as well as the spending of State’s budget and other legal funds to buy health insurance.
