How President Yoon's policy priority has changed to include healthcare reform

In terms of healthcare services, Korea is one of the top nations. The strong health insurance policy, which shields patients from unaffordable medical expenses, makes medical services generally available to the general people. However, with rising healthcare costs, opponents have recently raised ...

NHI & SA

An expert in public health medicine suggests that the government raise taxes in order to generate cash in the interim while it continues to be unknown how much money would be necessary to pay for the planned National Health Insurance (NHI), as well as where the funds will come from. The suggestio...

Free medical care has been announced for victims of domestic violence and human trafficking

The National Health Insurance Company-Daman has announced that victims receiving care from Ewaa will receive free full healthcare coverage. This occurs shortly after Daman and the Abu Dhabi Centre for Sheltering and Humanitarian Care-Ewaa, a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Department of Community Dev...

Need EHIC? Post-Brexit Insurance Card?

By presenting what are officially called European Health Insurance Cards but are more generally known as EHICs, British visitors were able to get free medical treatment everywhere they travelled around Europe. The European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) initiative was responsible for making this a ...

Two-thirds of Britons do not have a valid European or global health insurance

Two-thirds of British individuals do not have a valid European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) or Global Health Insurance Card (GHIC), and three-quarters do not understand what health insurance cards cover when travelling.

According to a Direct Line Travel survey, over 32 million UK people...

A S. KOREAN GAY COUPLE SUED NHIS FOR CANCELING HEALTH COVERAGE

Highlights –

• A S. Korean gay couple sued NHIS for cancelling health coverage.
• The state health insurer cancelled coverage of one of the partners as a dependent.
• The Korean Network for Partnership and Marriage Rights of LGBT repor...

RAH INFOTECH PARTNERS WITH TRUSTIFI

HIGHLIGHTS

• RAH Infotech has found a new partner in Trustifi.
• Both partners are working to introduce enhanced e-mail security to India.

RAH Infotech, India’s leading technology distributor has forged a partnership with Las Vegas...

With Brexit looming concerns for healthcare access grows among Irish citizens

The news of Brexit has worried the Irish citizens residing in England, Scotland and Wales, fearing that they might lose access to healthcare in EU countries. The concern has mainly risen due to the uncertainty of the future of European Health Insurance Cards post Brexit.

Irish citizens ...

Poor Indian's About 90% Have No Health Insurance

New Delhi: solely concerning 100% of the poorest one-fifth Indians in rural (10.2%) and concrete India (9.8%) had any sort of personal or government insurance, show knowledge from India’s largest national survey on social consumption, conducted between July 2017 and June 2018.

The...

Max India sells stake in Max Bupa as policyholders are reassured

Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has given the go-ahead to sell its entire stake in Max Bupa Health Insurance Company Ltd, according to Max India Limited.

A joint partnership, Max Bupa Health Insurance Company Ltd was taken by Max India limited and UK rela...

Under present Delhi pollution, health insurance companies can charge up the premium by more than 5% nationally

If the claims data in Delhi-NCR show an abnormally high level of hospitalization and respiratory disorders, health insurance companies can charge up the premium by more than 5% nationally.

For insurance companies, the other alternative is to tighten Delhi-NCR underwriting procedures by ...

Insurance firm fined for violations

The insurance sector of India has been in quite a mess as there are more and more frauds in the sector are being found. It is becoming difficult for the insurance sector to stay financially viable aa the banking sector and the core financial sector is also a mess which is causing more harm to the...

New Drug Pricing Bill allows for negotiations on pharmaceutical products

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) champions a proposal that would allow Medicare to directly negotiate rates for some expensive medicines, including insulin, with drug manufacturers. The Republicans have long objected to Medicare dealing with pharmaceutical manufacturers. Members of the two si...

New Digital Care Act to be introduced for expanding digitization of the German healthcare system

In order to expand the digitization of the German healthcare system, a new Digital care act known as Digitale-Versorgung-Gesetz is going to be introduced. Since 2016, after the establishment of the ‘E-Health Act’, Germany has been pursuing the path of digitization. The main goal of the ‘E-Health ...

Primary care given decent share of funds

A new report, prepared by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), compares key measures of Australia’s health expenditure with the other 35 Organizations. For most of the OCED, hospitals represented the highest proportion of healthcare expenditure in 2016. Australia spent 44.1% of ...