03:44' 30/04/2008 (GMT+7)
VietNamNet Bridge – The Government will spend VND700bil (US$43.8mil) to pay 50% of voluntary health insurance premiums for people living near the poverty line to buy voluntary health insurance cards this year, Tong Thi Song Huong, head of the Health Insurance Department under the Ministry of Health said.
The programme will begin in mid May. The support rate could be up to 70% of voluntary health insurance premiums in areas that have their own budgets for voluntary health insurance.
Voluntary health insurance cards cost VND130,000 (US$8.10 ) a year. According to estimated, roughly 16mil people live near the poverty line in the country.
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