Senate approved bill on mandatory health insurance

ASTANA. KAZINFORM Today at a plenary session the deputies of the Senate of the Kazakh Parliament approved the bill "On mandatory health insurance", Kazinform correspondent reports.

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The bill aims at implementation of mandatory health insurance system. This will be a mechanism of joint and several liability of the government, employers and citizens for individual and public health and. It will also serve as a tool of implementation of up-to-date market mechanisms in healthcare sector. The health insurance system will be based on mandatory insurance payments of the government, employers, employees and self-employed groups of population. By Murat Zhakeyev