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VietNam News English 5 month(s) ago
About 20 per cent of the 13 million university and college students in Viet Nam don't have compulsory health insurance, says the Health Insurance Department.
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Báo Dân Trí English 5 month(s) ago
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Vietnam's goal of universalising health insurance is facing difficulties due to uncomprehensive policy.
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SaiGon GP English 7 month(s) ago
The Ministry of Health has proposed to the government to raise health insurance for disadvantaged people, including families whose economic conditions are close to the poverty line, as well as farmers, students and blue-collar workers.
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SaiGon GP English 9 month(s) ago
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Nguyen Thi Kim Tien, the Minister of Health, on Tuesday chaired a conference to gather opinion on ways to increase health insurance in about 75 percent of the country’s population by 2015 and 90 percent by 2020.
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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 9 month(s) ago

Briefs of some of leading news stories published Tuesday (August 14) in Tuoi Tre Newspaper that will be carried today on Tuoitrenews.vn:
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VietNam News English 10 month(s) ago
Cities and provinces in the Mekong Delta have approved new public hospital tariffs with huge increases in most fees that have come in for sharp criticism.
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VietnamNet English 10 month(s) ago
Many hospitals nationwide have planned to raise medical fees to the highest level allowed under current regulations, regardless of their differences in quality of services or medical infrastructure, according to an official from the Health Insurance Department.
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VietNam News English 11 month(s) ago

Many hospitals nationwide have planned to raise medical fees to the highest level allowed under current regulations, regardless of their differences in quality of services or medical infrastructure, according to an official from the Health Insurance Department.
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VietNam News English 11 month(s) ago

Chief of the Health Insurance Department in the Ministry of Health Tong Thi Song Huong spoke to Nong Thon Ngay Nay (Countryside Today) newspaper about a universal health insurance plan
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Báo điện tử CP English 11 month(s) ago
VGP – Around 56 million people involved in health insurance by the end of 2011, accounting for 63.7% of the population, according to Head of Health Insurance Department under the Ministry of Health Tong Thi Song Huong.
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SaiGon GP English 20 month(s) ago

Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has said that from now on hospital drugstores will have to sell medicines at a much lower rate than that in the market.
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VietnamNet English 21 month(s) ago
VietNamNet Bridge – The new policy on hospital fees, under which the prices for 350 services will rise, is still a draft. It will be checked carefully before being implemented, said Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien.
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SaiGon GP English 22 month(s) ago

A 61-year-old woman, identified as L only, says she had to pay a Ho Chi Minh City-based hospital nearly VND20 million (US$1,000) for offering one of her kidney to her nephew in 2009.
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VietNam News English 24 month(s) ago 1 duplicate news

With the number of premature babies increasing, Tu Du Obstetrics Hospital in HCM City wants the Health Insurance Fund to subsidise the care of such children aged between six months and two years.
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VietnamNet English 24 month(s) ago
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VietNamNet Bridge –Victims of traffic accidents who haven't broken traffic laws will be eligible for health insurance to cover their hospital fees, said director of the Health Ministry's Health Insurance Department Tong Thi Song Huong.
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