Continued Failures to Collect Health Promises

The warning that July 1st will be Friday collection day for the start of health insurance application turned out to be the next failure for the country's government.

Displaced Health Minister Imet Canman last year had warned that the promise collection would begin in January 2017, but his outgoing chief, Isa Mustafa, had considered not all preparations have been made, so another date was given that was July 1, 2017.

Objections to begin collecting premiums both in January and July had many acts in the field of health.

The Association for the Rights of Patients that had rejected the start of the premiere collection told KALLXO.com that its postponement is the right decision.

We consider it a reasonable decision to postpone the date for the start of a promise of health insurance collection based on some of the tests we've done to this process.

“The Health Insurance Law has a series of shortages, a series of provisions necessary for the functioning of the Fund, have not yet been adopted, the body has an extremely insufficient staff in number, the integrated health information system is not yet functional, the list of basic priced health services and co-paid is not harmonised, communication with the public about this issue is at zero” in response.

According to them to be ready for the collection of premiums within six months, the integrated health information system throughout Kosovo must be implemented, all regulations and other acts necessary for the work of the health financing fund, contract primary health institutions on the basis of captainship, and a set of other obligations that the future government must perform.

The PRAK had listed ten reasons why it should not begin collecting premiums, among many reasons, is the fact that the Health Finance Agency has not completed the necessary staff to work in this direction.

According to the PRAK, even for at least six months there can't be a Fond ready for the start of the premiere collection.

Also at the request of Kosovo's Afarism Business has been addressed to the Government with the request to suspend the decision to implement the Law on Collecting Promises for Health Insurance on July 1st.

According to them, businesses require the necessary period to make proper preparations so that they are more involved in the process.

The non-fulfillment of the many criteria before them by law, as well as the lack of proper information, has caused confusion among the businesspeople, thus arguing that the postponement of the premium collection and the postponement of the Law on Health Insurance” is said in their response.

The beginning of the law on health insurance had not only promoted Imet Canentman and two preliminary health ministers, Alush Gashi and Ferid Agani, had given promises of starting health insurance application.

This Law It was drafted in 2004, while approved in 2007, following World Bank recommendations and the International Monetary Fund, he had left and had not entered into force due to budgetary implications.

KA LLXO.com and Emission Life in Kosovo have sometimes addressed the topic of health insurance, Minister Bemerman had promised in November last year on the Life show in Kosovo that this issue will be resolved in January of this year.