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Description
A project is needed because we believe that access to free health services is the foundation for a dignified life for all. After more than 20 years of announcing, promises and unsuccessful attempts, Gibanje Svoboda filed a law to abolish supplementary health insurance. The adoption of the law is very likely and is expected to take place before the summer with the application of the law on September 1, 2023. At the first analysis of the proposal, we, at Research Institute 8th of March, found that certain reproductive rights, rights protected by the Slovenian Constitution, had fallen out of the rights of compulsory health insurance. This would mean thate.g. artificial termination of pregnancy would become self-paying. The established fact has already been ublicly recognized as an error by the proponents of the law, and questions of the appropriate record of other rights are also raised. The law abolishing supplementary health insurance must clearly ensure that our rights do not shrink when supplementary ealth insurance is abolished. Due to the poor definition of rights in the law, some health services may become self-paying. With the project Prevention of reduction of reproductive and other health rights in the process of abolition of supplementary health nsurance, we will: 1. make a thorough analysis of the proposed law in order to determine whether the proposal really includes all the rights that supplementary and compulsory insurance currently provide,2. make a proposal for an appropriate record of rights3. and create public pressure to adopt an appropriate solution. What rights derive from compulsory health insurance is an issue that affects all residents of Slovenia.
Summary of project results
The project was supported to make sure all the reproductive rights and other health services will remain in the new law that abolished supplementary health insurance as in the first versions of the law several of existing rights were missing, mostly in the area of reproductive rights and womens health.
The project focused on keeping pressure on the decision-makers with public campaigns on reproductive health and the change of the legislation. To be able to do this they needed to analyse each version of the new legislative proposal in depth to make sure all rights are included and prepare the reccomendation for the improvement of the legislation.
With their activities they managed to keep all the existing rights (including the right to termination of the pregnancy etc) part of the public health system that is paid from the Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia as part of the obligatory insurance scheme.