13:51 | Lima, Apr. 02 (ANDINA).
Peruvian President Alan Garcia Perez on Friday signed a supreme ordinance approving the regulations for the framework law on the Universal Health Insurance, which seeks to provide access to quality health care for all Peruvian citizens.
Peru’s Universal Health Insurance law aims to increase access to timely and quality health care services, emphasizes maternal and child health promotion, and provides the poor with protection from financial ruin due to illness.
In this regard, it meets the objectives of promoting and expanding the coverage of the covered population, avoiding duplication in the use of resources and expanding benefit coverage according to demographic and epidemiological profile.
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The regulation states that membership of the Universal Health Insurance (AUS for its Spanish acronym) is compulsory for the entire population living in the country. To that end, the Ministry of Health will approve, by supreme ordinance, the mechanisms leading to compulsory membership, as well as escalation and implementation.
It establishes that public, private or mixed institutions are responsible for ensuring that all people who are in the scope of their activities, under any form of contracting, are affiliated to the AUS regime.
The rule states that the National Identification Document (DNI) is the document from which the insured status is recognized under the Universal Health Insurance.
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Published: 4/2/2010