Ningbo realized complete coverage of medical insurance in urban areas

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Category: Ningbo News

Published: Tuesday, 27 December 2011 19:59

According to Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Labor and Social Security, in 2011 Ningbo realized complete coverage of medical insurance for urban citizens, with the number of medical insurance participants in urban areas amounting to 583,700.

It is learned that to extend the medical insurance coverage for urban citizens is one of the serving-the-people projects of Ningbo municipal government. This year, Ningbo further raised the insurance payment ratio for hospitalized patients and patients of special diseases. This benefit for the medical insurance participants made the payment settlement more convenient and encouraged more people to participate in the medical insurance.

Statistics show that in 2011 the coverage of the medical insurance programs of old residents, people without fixed employment and children in early childhood reached 98.06% and the coverage of the students reached 97.13%. “So far, the social medical insurance system has basically covered all urban residents,” said a person from Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Labor and Social Security.

Of the medical insurance participants of urban citizens, over 10,000 are people living on basic minimum living allowance, and the severely disable people. Thanks to the policy of the whole premium paid by the government, the poverty-stricken people whole are prone to diseases are covered by the urban residents medical insurance system.

Besides, the participants of college students of the medical insurance have increased by about 10%. This year 139,700 college students participated in medical insurance, with the participation rate amounting to 97.62%