The rule extends insurance coverage to children until they reach 25 years, tends to universalize health care. But you must weigh the reality being experienced by the social security authorities, mainly the National Health Fund, saturated with patients.
The health care to more people is one of the main obligations is to enforce the rule, as noted by the current constitution of the state. The leaders must make maximum efforts to apply that fundamental precept.
The levels of health coverage, a targeted population, defined by much, the quality of life of people and development of a country. Social security and health and in some countries, represents significant progress, although most of them facing problems for their support, leading to deficits in public budgets.
In Bolivia, one of the largest insurance companies is the National Health Fund, and marked as an institution has a history of great achievements in medical care, although the administrative mechanisms have been questioned, which at the same time has led including allegations of mismanagement of funds.
The National Health Fund, for better or worse, is one of the institutions without which the rates of medical neglect in the country would be dramatic. According to official data, the National Fund is a medical entity that has the highest number of insured, reaching 2.5 million people. However, it is no stranger to the institution faces, almost systematically, a number of constraints in infrastructure, money, management, provision of drugs and other problems giving rise to complaints and invocations of the insured to improve care.
In this sort of institutional landscape of the country’s largest social insurance, the Government approved a few days ago a supreme decree, by which mandates that insurance for children of employees is extended from 18 to 25 years of age, provided are not married and living together and have not left home to their parents. Similarly, it is provided that the children are safe in their own right regardless of age or if they are declared invalid by the medical services of the boxes. The benefits also include husbands, wives or partners who are enrolled in the insurance managing agency, the father and mother who do not have personal incomes and brothers in the same age of the beneficiary children, provided they are orphans or children whose parents have no income or monthly income.
All the standard is commendable, a high sense of social and as stated by the Minister of Health, aims to universalize health care. But you can not dictate a standard, without weighing the reality being experienced by the social security authorities, mainly the National Health Fund, which as we said, is saturated with patients.
Existing policyholders are primarily in providing testimony, day to day care they receive: long lines, crowded with people, shortage of medicines, medical equipment and limitations in clinical and other emergencies unresolved.
