After two years, the Cabinet has finally approved a comprehensive health insurance bill and has referred it to the State Council for review, Ahmed Emad Eddin, Minister of Health and Population, said Wednesday. The new bill covers the health insurance of the whole family, not just the individual, according to Emad Eddin. Under the current health insurance system each citizen costs the state LE112, while in the new bill it would be LE1,300 a year, according to Emad Eddin. Deputy Minister of Finance, Mohamed Moait, described the approval of the bill as “historic” as the state will provide for the first time a comprehensive health insurance system for the Egyptian family based on actuarial studies made by former health ministers and experts on the field of health insurance. In a statement to al-Masry al-Youm, the minister said that the current health care system only covers 58 percent of the population, and the rest, 42 percent of the population, have no health care umbrella.

Source: Egypt Independent October 25, 2017 14:37 UTC