Fifteen years following the Party Central Committee Secretariat’s Directive No. 38-CT/TW on promoting health insurance in the new situation, the implementation of the health insurance policy for the 2009-2024 period has gained many achievements, with the goal of universal health insurance likely to be reached. As of late 2023, over 93.6 million people, or 93.35% of the country’s population, are covered by health insurance, exceeding the goal set in the Government’s Resolution No. 01/NQ-CP as well as the National Assembly’s Resolution No. 68/2022/QH15 on socioeconomic development plan for 2023, and an impressive surge from the 39.7 million, or 46.1% of the population, recorded in 2008 before the directive was issued.
Source: Vietnam News Agency