AMMAN — The health insurance draft
law proposed by the
Social Security Corporation (SSC) is to be released soon,
according to the SSC’s official spokesman, Shaman Al-Majali.
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In a phone interview with
Jordan News, Majali said that "the proposed health insurance law will not
cover primary care, for now, and will be limited to covering hospitals costs
only." It also excludes ambulance costs.
The spokesperson explained
that, since its introduction in the 1980s, the SSC Law has been gradually
expanded, and that the health insurance bill may be the same.
Majali explained that "at
this phase, we’ve started by covering hospital costs,” but said that the next
phases may include ambulance and outpatient costs, too.
The SSC Law has never
distinguished between Jordanians and foreigners, and he stressed that the
proposed bill is no different.
However, an insurance and
social protection expert, and former SSC spokesperson, Moosa Al-Subeihi, told
Jordan
News that the details of the bill are still unclear and that it’s possible
not all social security subscribers will benefit from it. He urged the health
insurance put forward in the bill to be studied thoroughly.
Most of the SSC’s elderly
subscribers “need outpatient care rather than hospitalization coverage,” he
contended.
A source from the SSC, who
spoke on condition of anonymity, told
Jordan News that "the final
version of the law has not been issued yet, and its provisions are still under
examination, and subject to change and modification."
The SSC had previously
announced that it had completed the development of the first draft of the
health insurance law, which will offer health coverage to those insured at
private-sector facilities and retirees who do not have public or military
health insurance. The bill would also cover those retirees’ families as well.
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