Every citizen pays taxes to the budget, so they must have a minimum health package that the state provides its population- the head of the State Insurance Supervision Service David Onoprishvili states.
"You have to be on one side or the other." I think it's wrong, everyone pays money into the budget and some minimum must be met. "The number of people who have decided to pay for private insurance has exceeded 750,000 because they believe they will be served better there," Onoprishvili said. In his words, prices in private insurance are rising amid medical product hikes and companies cannot operate at a loss.
Note: in unison with the universal healthcare program, the private insurance is available in the country , only a small part of the population has the right to purchase the built-in packages - mainly children, pensioners and other vulnerable groups. In other cases, this right is limited for citizens with a certain income, and they have to choose between limited private and universal healthcare packages, while citizens with an annual income of more than 40 thousand GEL cannot use universal healthcare (although some services, such as funding for childbirth, are preserved, according to the latest data, since recently oncology services have been covered from the universal healthcare budget.
